ABSTRACT

This article explores the capacity of industrial ecology to generate sustainable development in Latin America’s agro-industrial clusters. An evolutionary analytical approach is outlined, which is used to study Veracruz’s (Mexico) sugarcane cluster through a qualitative methodology. Our goal is to show that social innovation is key to promoting the sustainable development of clusters characterized by fragmented social, power, and innovation networks. Accordingly, innovations in the realm of industrial ecology often have a dual impact. On the one hand, in the dominant network, industrial ecology is reduced to its technological dimensions within a political-economic framework constrained by its external insertion and the maintenance of power dynamics. On the other hand, industrial ecology is a vehicle for a kind of Schumpeterian entrepreneurship driven by the core values of trust, transparency, acknowledgement of other people’s capabilities, and non-discrimination. This new transformative network promotes true socio-technical change by enhancing local resources and involving other intermediate actors. It also creates a localized agro-food system that promotes the development of cluster-based dynamics in the territory through radical innovations in industrial ecology. The article presents a new way of inserting industrial ecology into the dynamics of cluster-based organizations.

摘要

本文探讨了工业生态在拉丁美洲农业产业集群中产生可持续发展的能力。概述了一种进化分析方法，该方法用于通过定性方法研究韦拉克鲁斯（墨西哥）的甘蔗集群。我们的目标是表明，社会创新是促进以分散的社会、权力和创新网络为特征的集群可持续发展的关键。因此，产业生态领域的创新往往具有双重影响。一方面，在主导网络中，工业生态在其外部插入和维持权力动态的政治经济框架内被简化为技术维度。另一方面，产业生态是一种熊彼特式企业家精神的载体，其核心价值观是信任、透明、承认他人的能力和不歧视。这个新的变革性网络通过增强当地资源和让其他中间参与者参与来促进真正的社会技术变革。它还创建了一个本地化的农业食品系统，通过工业生态的彻底创新，促进该地区基于集群的动态发展。本文提出了一种将产业生态插入集群组织动态的新方法。这个新的变革性网络通过增强当地资源和让其他中间参与者参与来促进真正的社会技术变革。它还创建了一个本地化的农业食品系统，通过工业生态的彻底创新，促进该地区基于集群的动态发展。本文提出了一种将产业生态插入集群组织动态的新方法。这个新的变革性网络通过增强当地资源和让其他中间参与者参与来促进真正的社会技术变革。它还创建了一个本地化的农业食品系统，通过工业生态的彻底创新，促进该地区基于集群的动态发展。本文提出了一种将产业生态插入集群组织动态的新方法。