Industrial Symbiosis for Green Growth in MSMEs in Kenya.

      Аннотация: Enhancing resource productivity and environmental performance through Industrial Symbiosis in MSMEs for green growth can be achieved when there is top management commitment. The willingness of the management makes it easier for the identified innovations to be financed and implemented. Green growth refers to a process whereby the economic growth and development is enhanced while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which human well-being relies. Green growth must always catalyse investment and innovation that will strengthen sustained growth and create new economic opportunities. Industrial Symbiosis is one way to achieve green growth, and can be seen as part of a Circular Economy that focuses on keeping the added value in products for as long as possible and at the same time eliminating waste. Industrial Symbiosis is an innovative way to increase resource productivity (European Commission 2011). It involves the physical exchange of materials, energy, water and by-products (Chertow 2000, p.314).

Ключевые слова: Industrial symbiosis, Green Growth