UK Manufacturing Symbiosis NetworkPlus (UKMSN+)

工业共生是循环经济的基本组成部分，因为它提供了一种手段，通过创建涉及组织网络的制造生态系统来产生工业竞争力和可持续性，这些组织网络通过不断交换资源(材料和能源)来产生新的经济价值。制造企业正在抓住循环经济方法的机会，将其作为一种节省成本、防止材料投入中断和从废物流中产生额外收入的手段。尽管关键制造业(食品、汽车、电子、塑料等)的循环经济实践有所增加，但英国制造业作为一个整体的工业共生能力仍未得到充分利用，大多数循环经济倡议都是在部门筒仓中制定的。这种支离破碎的状况阻碍了经济实现更好的整体循环经济表现。为了释放英国制造业尚未开发的循环经济潜力，跨行业的工业共生方法是及时和必要的。为了解决这一差距，我们建议创建英国制造业共生网络+(UKMSN+)，它将促进、支持、促进和促进在全英国范围内建立一个由学者和从业者组成的社区，他们将根据核心问题--如何在部门内激发整个英国制造业的工业共生能力，并在不同部门之间进行肥沃--来应对上述挑战。UKMSN+将采用多学科方法，利用赋能机制和工具来促进和支持英国制造业工业共生协同效应的发展。通过这种方式，提高循环经济的整体能力和关键经济部门制造业企业的竞争力。发展制造业共生能力，旨在实现向循环经济的产业转型，需要在商业模式、数字系统和材料三个领域进行科学进步和创新。这三个领域代表了循环经济的关键推动因素，因为它们分别指对制造组织的运作方式有直接影响的生产、技术和资源能力。物流和运输系统的质量、协作商业关系、政策和法规等结构性因素也是实现循环经济能力的关键因素。该网络的潜在制造业共生主题为该网络提供了一个明确和定义明确的制造业研究领域，使该网络能够以连贯的方式集中其活动。该网络的活动将为进一步研究的发展奠定基础，这些研究可以促进制造业共生能力的重大科学和实践进展，从而使更深层次的、而不是外围的产业转型成为循环经济。我们的观点是，英国制造业在加速向循环经济转型方面具有巨大但潜在的潜力。该网络将通过建立一个共同领域和独特的世界领先论坛，有针对性地融合针对循环经济的生产模型、数字技术和材料科学的多学科知识，加强制造业对循环经济研究、实践、战略和政策制定的贡献。

Industrial symbiosis is a fundamental building block of the circular economy, for it provides a means to generate industrial competitiveness and sustainability through the creation of manufacturing ecosystems involving networks of organisations that generate new economic value through the continuous exchange of resources (materials and energy).Manufacturing firms are embracing the opportunities of circular economy approaches as a means to save costs, prevent disruptions in materials input and generate additional revenue from waste streams. Despite the increase in circular economy practices within key manufacturing sectors (food, automotive, electronics, plastics, etc.), the industrial symbiosis capability of the UK manufacturing industry as a whole is still underexploited, with most of the circular economy initiatives being developed in sectoral silos. This fragmented condition holds the economy back from achieving better circular economy performance overall. To unlock the untapped circular economy potential of the manufacturing industry in the UK, a cross-sectoral industrial symbiosis approach is timely and necessary.To address this gap we propose the creation of the UK Manufacturing Symbiosis NetworkPlus (UKMSN+), which will promote, support, facilitate and stimulate the creation of a UK-wide community of academics and practitioners who will address the challenges above mentioned with basis on the central question of 'how the industrial symbiosis capability of the UK manufacturing industry as a whole can be galvanised within sectors and fertilised across sectors?'The UKMSN+ will adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to exploiting enabling mechanisms and tools to facilitate and support the development of industrial symbiosis synergies in the UK manufacturing industry, this way improving the overall circular economy competence and competitiveness of manufacturing businesses across key sectors of the economy.The development of manufacturing symbiosis 'capabilities' aimed at enabling industrial transformations toward the circular economy calls for scientific advancements and innovations in three domains: Business models, Digital systems, and Materials. These three domains represent key enablers of the circular economy, as they respectively refer to production, technological and resource capabilities that have direct impact on the modus operandi of manufacturing organisations. Structural elements such as the quality of logistics and transport systems, collaborative business relationships, policy and regulations are also critical factors to enable circular economy capabilities. The underlying manufacturing symbiosis topic of the network provides a clear and well-defined field of manufacturing research for the network to focus its activities in a cohesive way.The activities of the network will establish the basis for the development of further research that can promote significant scientific and practical advancements on manufacturing symbiosis capabilities that enable deeper, rather than peripheral, industrial transformations toward the circular economy. Our view is that the manufacturing industry in the UK has a significant, but latent, potential to accelerate the shift to the circular economy. The network will strengthen the manufacturing industry contribution to circular economy research, praxis, strategy and policy making by establishing a common field and a unique world-leading forum to amalgamate multi-disciplinary knowledge on production models, digital technologies and materials science purposefully aimed at the circular economy.