Eco-innovative development of industrial ecosystems based on the quintuple helix

This article explores how eco-innovation practices are integrated into different industrial ecosystems in different national and regional contexts,and the role of the quintuple helix model in this integration.The research examines the collaborative interaction of academia,industry,government,civil society,and the natural environment in fostering an integrated eco-innovation ecosystem.The findings underscore the central role of the Quintuple Helix framework in effectively managing eco-innovation,suggesting a comprehensive approach that integrates environmental and societal concerns into a dynamic system for sustainable progress.The study shows that an ecosystem-based approach,underpinned by the quintuple helix,facilitates the rapid exchange of knowledge and resources essential to overcoming eco-innovation challenges,such as high R&D expenditures and the complex integration of sustainable technologies.The quintuple helix model emerges as a strategic imperative for concerted action to achieve eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness.The study employs an innovative methodological framework based on Quintuple Helix projections using the Eco-Innovation Index(Eco-IS)and highlights significant trends in the roles of academia,industry,government,civil society,and the natural environment in ecoinnovation,with a particular focus on their contributions to eco-innovation leaders,average performers,and catching-up groups.The article describes the different roles and interdependencies of the actors within the ecosystem and urges a coherent,networked strategy for managing eco-innovation,which is crucial for sustainable and responsible growth.Acknowledging the issue of externalities that complicate eco-innovation management,the article posits that the quintuple helix framework can better address these challenges by enabling shared R&D investments and broad diffusion of innovations.This research contributes to the discourse on sustainable industrial development by proposing the quintuple helix as a transformative model for improving eco-innovation performance and fostering a culture of sustainability.

Industrial Ecosystem and the Development of Strategic Emerging Industries

Based on the theories of business ecosystem and national innovation system, this paper proposes a concept of industrial ecosystem. Differ from ecologists and environmentalists who regard industrial ecosystem as the natural ecosystems in which material, energy and information circulates, this paper defines industrial ecosystem as a set of factors that are vital to the development of a certain industry and their interrelationship. The industrial ecosystem consists of three sub-systems that are innovation ecosystem, production ecosystem, and application ecosystem, and subsidiary factors that include factor supply, infrastructure, socio-cultural environment, international environment and policy system. The industrial ecosystem is characterized by interdependencies, complex interactions, self-recovery and co-evolution. The development of an industry is＇ the result of the reaction of the whole industrial ecosystem; therefore, the competition in strategic emerging industries among countries is in essence the competition in industrial ecosystems. Those countries which are able to take the lead in setting up complete industrial ecosystem will occupy advantage in developing strategic emerging industries. Cultivating and developing strategic emerging industries requires promoting the development and coordination of the whole ecosystem.

The effects of sediment from an industrial outfall area on a marine planktonic ecosystem

-Sediment from Xiamen industrial area was added to marine ecosystem enclosures to test the effects on the planktonic communities in Xiamen Bay, China, in April, 1985. Sediments were added at two concentrations, 11.2 and 112 ppm dry wt. respectively. The species of phytoplankton did not change as compared with the control, but the number of diatoms markedly decreased in the sediment treated enclosures. A suppression of photosynthesis was presumed to be due to light attenuation by the added sediment. Microflagellates, zooplankton and bacteria were resistant to sediment increase in water column.

Pathway to energy technical innovation and commercialization based on Internet plus DES

The distributed energy system （DES） is a type of energy cascade utilization on the client side or close to the client, and it has become an important option of global energy transformation. In China, based on the experience of demonstration projects, the DES is now being commercialized. Under the new opportunity of energy production and consumption promoted by the national ＂Internet Plus＂ action plan, the development of the DES was reviewed in this paper; four categories of market demand and five key issues for DES deployment were analyzed; five types of potential DES users and five key points of technical path implementation proposed based on many years of engineering practices and hundreds of project case studies were proposed. 4E elements should be used to evaluate and choose the project and lead the innovation model of DES by energy production and consumption revolution with the sustainable development of the Intemet plus DES. The future innovation models include intelligent energy modularity and menu-type services with the demands of the client side, and the kind of new thinking for DES services that ＂you are in charge of your own energy production and consumption, while we are also at service when needed for installation and maintenance.＂ The aim of innovation mode is to give the energy sovereign back to the people, and form a perfect Intemet plus DES ecosystem.