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Dr. Luca Fraccascia
(a) Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy;

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Journal article
Published: 26 July 2021 in Journal of Environmental Management
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This paper proposes a methodology to design the biomethane production chain from MSW at the regional level and to assess the environmental and economic performance of the chain. In the design phase, the following parameters are considered: number and production capacity of biomethane plants, localization of plants, waste flows among municipalities and plants. The model is adopted to design the biomethane chain in the Rome Metropolitan Area (Italy). Several structures of production chain are designed and their performances are assessed. The economic factors mostly able to affect the performance of the chain are waste disposal tariff, biomethane selling price, and the economic incentive provided to biomethane producers. Their impacts are discussed through sensitivity analyses. Results show that the structure maximizing the economic performance has the worst environmental performance and vice versa. Hence, a new structure of the economic incentive is proposed, aimed at re-aligning economic and environmental performance.

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Luca Fraccascia; Mario Spagnoli; Laura Riccini; Alberto Nastasi. Designing the biomethane production chain from urban wastes at the regional level: An application to the Rome Metropolitan Area. Journal of Environmental Management 2021, 297, 113328 .

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Luca Fraccascia, Mario Spagnoli, Laura Riccini, Alberto Nastasi. Designing the biomethane production chain from urban wastes at the regional level: An application to the Rome Metropolitan Area. Journal of Environmental Management. 2021; 297 ():113328.

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Luca Fraccascia; Mario Spagnoli; Laura Riccini; Alberto Nastasi. 2021. "Designing the biomethane production chain from urban wastes at the regional level: An application to the Rome Metropolitan Area." Journal of Environmental Management 297, no. : 113328.

Journal article
Published: 29 January 2021 in Ecological Economics
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Industrial symbiosis (IS) is a collaborative approach among firms involving physical exchanges of materials, energy, and wastes, which creates economic advantages for firms and environmental benefits for the society. In this paper, we adopt an ecosystem approach to conceptualize the network of firms involved in IS relationships (ISN), in terms of organisms (firms), functions (waste exchange), and services (environmental benefits), and provide new insight on how to assess and compute IS performance indicators. In particular, we designed five classes of indicators aimed at assessing 1) the impact of services provided by ISNs on the environment, 2) the performance of the ISN services, 3) how the single functions contribute to ISN services, 4) the performance of the ISN functions, and 5) how the single firms contribute to ISN functions. A numerical example is also discussed showing how to compute them and the information they provide. The proposed indicators are useful to develop proper strategies to increase the efficiency of the system in exploiting the IS synergies, to improve the symbiotic exchanges carried out in ISNs, and to identify firms contributing most to IS benefits. Hence, they may assist managers of ISNs and policymakers in decision-making aspects, an urgent need of the literature.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. Ecosystem indicators for measuring industrial symbiosis. Ecological Economics 2021, 183, 106944 .

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Luca Fraccascia, Ilaria Giannoccaro, Vito Albino. Ecosystem indicators for measuring industrial symbiosis. Ecological Economics. 2021; 183 ():106944.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. 2021. "Ecosystem indicators for measuring industrial symbiosis." Ecological Economics 183, no. : 106944.

Research article
Published: 29 August 2020 in Sustainable Development
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The effect of national culture on country environmental performance has received attention during the past few years. However, previous studies considered a subset of cultural dimensions, focused on diverse environmental performance measures, provided contrasting results, and did not adequately investigated the mediating effects of socio‐economic variables. In this study, we investigate the impact of all cultural dimensions (power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long‐term orientation, indulgence) on three environmental performance measures at the country level: the environmental performance index and its two main overarching objectives. Both direct and indirect effects, through three socio‐economic variables (population growth, education, income), are tested using a sample of 62 countries. Results show that the effect of cultural dimensions may vary based on the specific cultural dimension and the type of environmental performance measure considered. Masculinity and indulgence directly impact on environmental performance. Power distance has no influence on environmental performance measures. The other dimensions affect environmental performance through the mediating effect of socio‐economic variables.

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Rosa Maria Dangelico; Luca Fraccascia; Alberto Nastasi. National culture's influence on environmental performance of countries: A study of direct and indirect effects. Sustainable Development 2020, 28, 1773 -1786.

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Rosa Maria Dangelico, Luca Fraccascia, Alberto Nastasi. National culture's influence on environmental performance of countries: A study of direct and indirect effects. Sustainable Development. 2020; 28 (6):1773-1786.

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Rosa Maria Dangelico; Luca Fraccascia; Alberto Nastasi. 2020. "National culture's influence on environmental performance of countries: A study of direct and indirect effects." Sustainable Development 28, no. 6: 1773-1786.

Review
Published: 30 June 2020 in Environment, Development and Sustainability
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Nowadays, industrial symbiosis (IS) is recognized as a key strategy to support the transition toward the circular economy. IS deals with the (re)use of wastes produced by a production process as a substitute for traditional production inputs of other traditionally disengaged processes. In this context, this paper provides a systematic literature review on the energy-based IS approach, i.e., IS synergies aimed at reducing the amount of energy requirement from outside industrial systems or the amount of traditional fuels used in energy production. This approach is claimed as effective aimed at reducing the use of traditional fuels in energy production, thus promoting a circular energy transition. 682 papers published between 1997 and 2018 have been collected, and energy-based IS cases have been identified among 96 of these. As a result of the literature review, three categories of symbiotic synergies have been identified: (1) energy cascade; (2) fuel replacement; and (3) bioenergy production. Through the review, different strategies to implement energy-based IS synergies are highlighted and discussed for each of the above-mentioned categories. Furthermore, drivers, barriers, and enablers of business development in energy-based IS are discussed from the technical, economic, regulatory, and institutional perspective. Accordingly, future research directions are recommended.

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Luca Fraccascia; Vahid Yazdanpanah; Guido van Capelleveen; Devrim Murat Yazan. Energy-based industrial symbiosis: a literature review for circular energy transition. Environment, Development and Sustainability 2020, 23, 4791 -4825.

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Luca Fraccascia, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Guido van Capelleveen, Devrim Murat Yazan. Energy-based industrial symbiosis: a literature review for circular energy transition. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 2020; 23 (4):4791-4825.

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Luca Fraccascia; Vahid Yazdanpanah; Guido van Capelleveen; Devrim Murat Yazan. 2020. "Energy-based industrial symbiosis: a literature review for circular energy transition." Environment, Development and Sustainability 23, no. 4: 4791-4825.

Journal article
Published: 10 March 2020 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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During the last two decades, the literature devoted great attention to industrial symbiosis (IS) as an effective strategy to achieve environmental, economic, and social benefits. Accordingly, a wide range of numerical indicators – highly different among them for scope, definition, purpose, and applications – have been developed, to characterize and measure IS. The paper proposes a taxonomy of these indicators with the aim of facilitating their adoption and proper usage in practice. The taxonomy is developed on the basis of a literature review and is addressed to answer three main questions: (1) what to measure, (2) where to measure, and (3) how to measure. This offers a clear picture of available relevant IS indicators in terms of purpose, context, and methodology.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro. What, where, and how measuring industrial symbiosis: A reasoned taxonomy of relevant indicators. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2020, 157, 104799 .

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Luca Fraccascia, Ilaria Giannoccaro. What, where, and how measuring industrial symbiosis: A reasoned taxonomy of relevant indicators. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2020; 157 ():104799.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro. 2020. "What, where, and how measuring industrial symbiosis: A reasoned taxonomy of relevant indicators." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 157, no. : 104799.

Research article
Published: 03 March 2020 in Business Strategy and the Environment
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This paper investigates the negotiation phase of industrial symbiosis relationships, where companies exchanging wastes for inputs need to develop strategies on how to share the additional costs to operate the industrial symbiosis business. The business behavior is approached as a “coopetition” problem where companies need to cooperate to reduce waste discharge costs and traditional input purchase costs and dive into competition to pay a minimum share of additional costs (i.e., waste treatment, waste transportation, and transaction costs) of operating industrial symbiosis. A noncooperative game‐theoretical model for sharing the additional costs is proposed that highlights the two strategies that companies can adopt aimed at sharing costs: a fair strategy and an opportunistic strategy. Then, an agent‐based model is used to simulate the game iterated over time and investigate how the players can adapt their strategies according to their past experience. Simulation results show that players learn that playing the fair strategy is beneficial in the long period, despite in the short period they can gain more benefit by playing the opportunistic strategy. Findings of the paper are critically important to reduce the business and managerial barriers against the formation of industrial symbiosis networks and to stimulate innovative thinking of company managers to foster the development of the circular economy. The paper proposes theoretical, managerial, and policy implications, which are discussed in detail in a comparative manner between linear and circular economy.

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Devrim Murat Yazan; Vahid Yazdanpanah; Luca Fraccascia. Learning strategic cooperative behavior in industrial symbiosis: A game‐theoretic approach integrated with agent‐based simulation. Business Strategy and the Environment 2020, 29, 2078 -2091.

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Devrim Murat Yazan, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Luca Fraccascia. Learning strategic cooperative behavior in industrial symbiosis: A game‐theoretic approach integrated with agent‐based simulation. Business Strategy and the Environment. 2020; 29 (5):2078-2091.

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Devrim Murat Yazan; Vahid Yazdanpanah; Luca Fraccascia. 2020. "Learning strategic cooperative behavior in industrial symbiosis: A game‐theoretic approach integrated with agent‐based simulation." Business Strategy and the Environment 29, no. 5: 2078-2091.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2020 in International Journal of Production Economics
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Luca Fraccascia; Devrim Murat Yazan; Vito Albino; Henk Zijm. The role of redundancy in industrial symbiotic business development: A theoretical framework explored by agent-based simulation. International Journal of Production Economics 2020, 221, 107471 .

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Luca Fraccascia, Devrim Murat Yazan, Vito Albino, Henk Zijm. The role of redundancy in industrial symbiotic business development: A theoretical framework explored by agent-based simulation. International Journal of Production Economics. 2020; 221 ():107471.

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Luca Fraccascia; Devrim Murat Yazan; Vito Albino; Henk Zijm. 2020. "The role of redundancy in industrial symbiotic business development: A theoretical framework explored by agent-based simulation." International Journal of Production Economics 221, no. : 107471.

Journal article
Published: 14 January 2020 in Ecological Economics
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This paper explores the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis (IS), which is a recommended strategy to support the transition towards the circular economy. Through IS, companies can use wastes produced by other companies as inputs to production processes. Online platforms supporting companies in operating IS relationships can play a critical role in developing the IS practice. In this paper, an agent-based model is designed to simulate the emergence of IS relationships among companies located in a given geographical area. Companies can establish relationships traditionally (relying on face-to-face contacts) or by using a platform. Several scenarios, defined by different platform usage rates, are simulated. Results show that there is a minimum platform usage rate allowing companies to benefit from using the platform. If the platform usage rate is lower than this threshold, the platform does not contribute to generate further benefits for companies. When the platform usage rate is higher than the threshold, the individual benefits for users are higher the greater the number of other companies using the platform. Based on these results, implications on how to ensure a win-win approach for companies and platform owners can be provided, as well as implications for policymakers.

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Luca Fraccascia. Quantifying the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis: an agent-based simulation study. Ecological Economics 2020, 170, 106587 .

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Luca Fraccascia. Quantifying the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis: an agent-based simulation study. Ecological Economics. 2020; 170 ():106587.

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Luca Fraccascia. 2020. "Quantifying the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis: an agent-based simulation study." Ecological Economics 170, no. : 106587.

Letter to the editor
Published: 18 July 2019 in Complexity
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Lade and Peterson [1], L&P hereafter, recently commented on our article by Fraccascia, Giannoccaro, and Albino [2], FGA hereafter, which provides a systematic literature review of the resilience of complex systems covering various disciplines, including environmental science, ecology, operation research, management science, engineering, computer science, economics, and psychology.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. Response to: Comment on “Resilience of Complex Systems: State of the Art and Directions for Future Research”. Complexity 2019, 2019, 1 -3.

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Luca Fraccascia, Ilaria Giannoccaro, Vito Albino. Response to: Comment on “Resilience of Complex Systems: State of the Art and Directions for Future Research”. Complexity. 2019; 2019 ():1-3.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. 2019. "Response to: Comment on “Resilience of Complex Systems: State of the Art and Directions for Future Research”." Complexity 2019, no. : 1-3.

Conference paper
Published: 01 July 2019 in 2019 IEEE 21st Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)
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The industrial symbiosis (IS) practice refers to replacing production inputs with wastes generated by other production processes, thus helping to close the loop of manufacturing processes. Companies adopting IS can reduce the amounts of wastes disposed of in landfills and primary inputs used in production processes, enhancing their production efficiency and reducing their production cost. The Agent-based modeling (ABM) approach has been recently adopted to advance the knowledge in the IS field, in particular to explore the extent to which the establishment of IS relationships can be affected by policy measures, benefit-sharing contracts, information-sharing tools, or social factors. However, the agentbased models proposed in the literature are highly different in terms of agents considered, their attributes, possible actions, and decisional rules. In particular, these models might result far from the real world, in terms of how the agents are modeled, as well as on the actions that they can undertake. The aim of this paper is to provide a general framework on how to model IS systems with ABM in a comprehensive way. The paper provides a literature review on IS aimed at identifying the potential agents in IS, their attributes, and their potential actions, shaped by technical, economic, and regulatory issues affecting the behavior of agents in terms of strategic management. Based on the results of the literature review, a general framework is proposed and discussed. This paper is expected to advance the knowledge on ABM for IS by providing useful suggestions to modelers and academicians.

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Luca Fraccascia; Vahid Yazdanpanah; Guido van Capelleveen; Devrim Murat Yazan. A Framework for Industrial Symbiosis Systems for Agent-Based Simulation. 2019 IEEE 21st Conference on Business Informatics (CBI) 2019, 1, 419 -428.

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Luca Fraccascia, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Guido van Capelleveen, Devrim Murat Yazan. A Framework for Industrial Symbiosis Systems for Agent-Based Simulation. 2019 IEEE 21st Conference on Business Informatics (CBI). 2019; 1 ():419-428.

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Luca Fraccascia; Vahid Yazdanpanah; Guido van Capelleveen; Devrim Murat Yazan. 2019. "A Framework for Industrial Symbiosis Systems for Agent-Based Simulation." 2019 IEEE 21st Conference on Business Informatics (CBI) 1, no. : 419-428.

Journal article
Published: 27 June 2019 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Because of the increasing international trade, monitoring tools are required that quantify and analyze CO2 emissions at a global level. This paper contributes to this literature by adopting a consumer-oriented approach and using two tools based on Multi-Regional Input-Output tables, i.e., the Global Emissions Chains (GECs) and the Global Emissions Trees (GETs). The GEC is proposed with an industry-level perspective so as to provide detailed information about the extent to which the final demand of an industry of a country drives indirect CO2 emissions by any industry of any other country. The GET is defined as a simplified graphical structure of the GEC, which includes only the industries providing the highest contribution of CO2 emissions. The tools are described and new indices are developed with the aim of conducting multiple analyses with different purposes. Applications are given with specific emphasis to the different analyses that can be carried out. In particular, the GEC and the GET of a specific Italian industry are presented and comparisons with GECs and GETs of different countries are discussed. How to use the tools to develop more effective decarbonization strategies at both country and global levels is also described.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro. Analyzing CO2 emissions flows in the world economy using Global Emission Chains and Global Emission Trees. Journal of Cleaner Production 2019, 234, 1399 -1420.

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Luca Fraccascia, Ilaria Giannoccaro. Analyzing CO2 emissions flows in the world economy using Global Emission Chains and Global Emission Trees. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2019; 234 ():1399-1420.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro. 2019. "Analyzing CO2 emissions flows in the world economy using Global Emission Chains and Global Emission Trees." Journal of Cleaner Production 234, no. : 1399-1420.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2019 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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The aim of this paper is to propose a taxonomy of industrial symbiosis (IS) business models. Rather than to adopt a firm perspective, we take a system perspective and focus on the governance of the system made up of the firms implementing IS, being the latter considered an important factor influencing firm’s competitive advantage. Four extreme IS business models are identified, characterized on the basis of two governance features: (1) need for coordination and (2) centralization of control. For each model, the main characteristics are presented and the main factors influencing firm value creation and value capture discussed. In doing so, our study contributes to clarify how and why firms applying IS practice can gain competitive advantage, a major gap in the current literature. Consequently, we contribute to the practical development of IS, which appears to be still not fully exploited by firms, despite its relevance.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. Business models for industrial symbiosis: A taxonomy focused on the form of governance. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2019, 146, 114 -126.

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Luca Fraccascia, Ilaria Giannoccaro, Vito Albino. Business models for industrial symbiosis: A taxonomy focused on the form of governance. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2019; 146 ():114-126.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. 2019. "Business models for industrial symbiosis: A taxonomy focused on the form of governance." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 146, no. : 114-126.

Articles
Published: 22 March 2019 in International Journal of Production Research
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Industrial symbiosis (IS) is a key for implementing circular economy. Through IS, wastes produced by one company are used as inputs by other companies. The operations of IS suffers from uncertainty barriers since wastes are not produced upon demand but emerge as secondary outputs. Such an uncertainty, triggered by waste supply-demand quantity mismatch, influences IS business dynamics. Accordingly, companies have difficulty to foresee potential costs and benefits of implementing IS. The paper adopts an enterprise input-output model providing a cost–benefit analysis of IS integrated to an agent-based model to simulate how companies share the total economic benefits stemming from IS. The proposed model allows to explore the space of cooperation, defined as the operationally favourable conditions to operate IS in an economically win-win manner. This approach, as a decision-support tool, allows the user to understand whether the IS relationship is created and how should the cost-sharing policy be. The proposed model is applied to a numerical example. Findings show that cost-sharing strategies are dramatically affected by waste supply-demand mismatch and by the relationship between saved and additional costs to run IS. Apart from methodological and theoretical contributions, the paper proposes managerial and practical implications for business strategy development in IS.

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Devrim Murat Yazan; Luca Fraccascia. Sustainable operations of industrial symbiosis: an enterprise input-output model integrated by agent-based simulation. International Journal of Production Research 2019, 58, 392 -414.

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Devrim Murat Yazan, Luca Fraccascia. Sustainable operations of industrial symbiosis: an enterprise input-output model integrated by agent-based simulation. International Journal of Production Research. 2019; 58 (2):392-414.

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Devrim Murat Yazan; Luca Fraccascia. 2019. "Sustainable operations of industrial symbiosis: an enterprise input-output model integrated by agent-based simulation." International Journal of Production Research 58, no. 2: 392-414.

Journal article
Published: 21 March 2019 in International Journal of Production Economics
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Industrial symbiosis (IS) is recognized as an effective practice to support circular economy and sustainable development because it is able to enhance the technical efficiency of production processes, provided IS relationships among companies remain active over the long period. However, although it has been established that IS relationships can be vulnerable to disruptive events that reduce the willingness of companies to cooperate in IS synergies, to date few contributions to the literature focus attention on the events which lead firms to interrupt IS synergies. This paper contributes to the existing literature firstly by highlighting the disruptive events affecting the willingness of companies to cooperate in IS synergies and their causes, and secondly by developing an analytical model to assess the impact of each disruption on physical and monetary flows created among companies by the IS relationship. Specifically, an enterprise input-output (EIO) model is proposed, aimed at mapping the physical and monetary flows resulting from IS synergies among companies. Through this model, disruptive events can be modeled and their impact on the above-mentioned flows can be assessed. A numerical case example illustrates how the model works and how company managers and IS facilitators could use it to evaluate to what degree their current IS relationships may be vulnerable to perturbations. The model could therefore facilitate the design of adequate countermeasures and contribute to the development of perturbation resilient IS relationships. Furthermore, policymakers could adopt the model when designing policy actions to support IS practice.

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Luca Fraccascia. The impact of technical and economic disruptions in industrial symbiosis relationships: An enterprise input-output approach. International Journal of Production Economics 2019, 213, 161 -174.

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Luca Fraccascia. The impact of technical and economic disruptions in industrial symbiosis relationships: An enterprise input-output approach. International Journal of Production Economics. 2019; 213 ():161-174.

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Luca Fraccascia. 2019. "The impact of technical and economic disruptions in industrial symbiosis relationships: An enterprise input-output approach." International Journal of Production Economics 213, no. : 161-174.

Call for papers
Published: 19 February 2019 in Business Strategy and the Environment
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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Abhishek Agarwal; Erik G. Hansen. Business models for the circular economy: Opportunities and challenges. Business Strategy and the Environment 2019, 28, 430 -432.

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Luca Fraccascia, Ilaria Giannoccaro, Abhishek Agarwal, Erik G. Hansen. Business models for the circular economy: Opportunities and challenges. Business Strategy and the Environment. 2019; 28 (2):430-432.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Abhishek Agarwal; Erik G. Hansen. 2019. "Business models for the circular economy: Opportunities and challenges." Business Strategy and the Environment 28, no. 2: 430-432.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2018 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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From technical perspective, an important condition for developing industrial symbiosis (IS) is the match between waste supply and demand. Such a match is hampered by lack of information among companies, i.e., demand (supply) for waste exists but firms producing (requiring) that waste are not aware of such a demand (supply). Despite online information-sharing platforms are proposed to support the creation of industrial symbiosis networks (ISNs), related environmental and economic benefits are not in-depth investigated. This paper firstly aims to fill this gap. Although up-to-date literature recognizes lack of information-sharing as an IS barrier, in-depth analysis about the impact of sensitive information-sharing on the operations of IS is not addressed. This paper secondly aims at filling this gap. In this paper, we design an agent-based model to simulate the emergence and operations of self-organized ISNs in three scenarios: (1) no information-sharing platform; (2) a platform where companies provide information about their geographical location and the type and quantity of produced and required wastes; (3) a platform where companies provide sensitive information about the costs of operating IS. These scenarios are simulated in a numerical case study involving two kinds of IS businesses: (1) marble residuals used in concrete production; (2) alcohol slops used in fertilizer production. Results show that online platforms increase the economic and environmental performance of ISNs. Findings help practitioners to understand the importance of information-sharing and to clarify whether the information they consider as ‘sensitive’ is really sensitive or it is non-sensitive information that facilitates business-making.

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Luca Fraccascia; Devrim Murat Yazan. The role of online information-sharing platforms on the performance of industrial symbiosis networks. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2018, 136, 473 -485.

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Luca Fraccascia, Devrim Murat Yazan. The role of online information-sharing platforms on the performance of industrial symbiosis networks. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2018; 136 ():473-485.

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Luca Fraccascia; Devrim Murat Yazan. 2018. "The role of online information-sharing platforms on the performance of industrial symbiosis networks." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 136, no. : 473-485.

Review article
Published: 12 August 2018 in Complexity
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This paper reviews the state of the art on the resilience of complex systems by embracing different research areas and using bibliometric tools. The aim is to identify the main intellectual communities and leading scholars and to synthesize key knowledge of each research area. We also carry out a comparison across the research areas, aimed at analyzing how resilience is approached in any field, how the topic evolved starting from the ecological field of study, and the level of cross-fertilization among domains. Our analysis shows that resilience of complex systems is a multidisciplinary concept, which is particularly important in the fields of environmental science, ecology, and engineering. Areas of recent and increasing interest are also operation research, management science, business, and computer science. Except for environmental science and ecology, research is fragmented and carried out by isolated research groups. Integration is not only limited inside each field but also between research areas. In particular, we trace the citation links between different research areas and find a very limited number, revealing a scarce cross-fertilization among domains. We conclude by providing some directions for future research.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. Resilience of Complex Systems: State of the Art and Directions for Future Research. Complexity 2018, 2018, 1 -44.

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Luca Fraccascia, Ilaria Giannoccaro, Vito Albino. Resilience of Complex Systems: State of the Art and Directions for Future Research. Complexity. 2018; 2018 ():1-44.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. 2018. "Resilience of Complex Systems: State of the Art and Directions for Future Research." Complexity 2018, no. : 1-44.

Journal article
Published: 21 May 2018 in Management Research Review
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This paper aims to understand the implementation of a circular economic business where animal manure is used to produce biogas and alternative fertilizer in a regional network of manure suppliers and biogas producers and to reveal the impacts of five variables (manure quantity, transportation distance, manure dry content, manure price and manure discharge price) on the economic sustainability of manure-based biogas supply chains. An enterprise input-output approach is used to model physical and monetary flows of the manure-based biogas supply chain. Computational experiments are performed on all variables to identify under which conditions the cooperation is beneficial for all actors. The cooperation is profitable for a large-scale farm (>20,000 t/year) if biogas producer (b) pays farmer (f) to receive its manure (5 €/t) or if f sells manure for free and manure disposal costs are >10 €/t. Cooperation is always profitable for b if f pays b to supply its manure (5€/t). If b receives manure for free, benefits are always positive if b is a medium-large-scale plant (>20,000 t/year). For a small-scale plant, benefits are positive if manure dry content (MDC) is ≥12 per cent and transportation distance is ≤10 km. The paper adds value to the biogas production research, as it makes holistic analysis of five variables which might change under different policy and geographical conditions. The investors in biogas production, suppliers and transportation companies can find correspondence to empirical findings for their own site-specific cases.

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Devrim Murat Yazan; Davide Cafagna; Luca Fraccascia; Martijn Mes; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Henk Zijm. Economic sustainability of biogas production from animal manure: a regional circular economy model. Management Research Review 2018, 41, 605 -624.

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Devrim Murat Yazan, Davide Cafagna, Luca Fraccascia, Martijn Mes, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, Henk Zijm. Economic sustainability of biogas production from animal manure: a regional circular economy model. Management Research Review. 2018; 41 (5):605-624.

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Devrim Murat Yazan; Davide Cafagna; Luca Fraccascia; Martijn Mes; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Henk Zijm. 2018. "Economic sustainability of biogas production from animal manure: a regional circular economy model." Management Research Review 41, no. 5: 605-624.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2018 in Applied Energy
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Biogas production from manure has been proposed as a partial solution to energy and environmental concerns. However, manure markets face distortions caused by considerable unbalance between supply and demand and environmental regulations imposed for soil and water protection. Such market distortions influence the cooperation between animal farmers, biogas producers and arable land owners causing fluctuations in manure prices paid (or incurred) by animal farmers. This paper adopts an agent-based modeling approach to investigate the interactions between manure suppliers, i.e., animal farmers, and biogas producers in an industrial symbiosis case example consisting of 19 municipalities in the Overijssel region (eastern Netherlands). To find the manure price for successful cooperation schemes, we measure the impact of manure discharge cost, dimension and dispersion of animal farms, incentives provided by the government for bioenergy production, and the investment costs of biogas plants for different scales on the economic returns for both actor types and favorable market conditions. Findings show that manure exchange prices may vary between −3.33 €/t manure (i.e., animal farmer pays to biogas producer) and 7.03 €/t manure (i.e., biogas producer pays to animal farmer) and thanks to cooperation, actors can create a total economic value added between 3.73 €/t manure and 39.37 €/t manure. Hence, there are cases in which animal farmers can profitably be paid, but the presence of a supply surplus not met by demand provides an advantage to arable land owners and biogas producers in the price contracting phase in the current situation in the Netherlands.

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Devrim Murat Yazan; Luca Fraccascia; Martijn Mes; Henk Zijm. Cooperation in manure-based biogas production networks: An agent-based modeling approach. Applied Energy 2018, 212, 820 -833.

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Devrim Murat Yazan, Luca Fraccascia, Martijn Mes, Henk Zijm. Cooperation in manure-based biogas production networks: An agent-based modeling approach. Applied Energy. 2018; 212 ():820-833.

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Devrim Murat Yazan; Luca Fraccascia; Martijn Mes; Henk Zijm. 2018. "Cooperation in manure-based biogas production networks: An agent-based modeling approach." Applied Energy 212, no. : 820-833.

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Published: 01 January 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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This paper contributes to green product development by identifying the green products with the highest potential for growth in a country. To address our aim, we use the concept of product proximity and product space and, borrowing from the results of recent studies on complexity economics, we advance that the green products with the highest potential for growth among all green products in a given country are those being in close proximity to the products a country produces with high Relative Comparative Advantage (RCA). We test this hypothesis performing a regression analysis. We build the product space for 141 different countries for the years between 2005 and 2013 and for each country we compute the maximum proximity of each green product to the products with high RCA (i.e., the proximity of the product source of competitive advantage closest to the green product considered). Results confirm that green products with high maximum proximity to the products with high RCA had the highest growth. So doing, we contribute to the literature by providing a new application of the product space as a policy making tool for green development. We also provide several applications of the proposed method

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. Green product development: What does the country product space imply? Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 170, 1076 -1088.

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Luca Fraccascia, Ilaria Giannoccaro, Vito Albino. Green product development: What does the country product space imply? Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 170 ():1076-1088.

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Luca Fraccascia; Ilaria Giannoccaro; Vito Albino. 2018. "Green product development: What does the country product space imply?" Journal of Cleaner Production 170, no. : 1076-1088.