Papers by Eduardo Aguiñaga
The world is experiencing an increase of externalities market failures where residues of the indu... more The world is experiencing an increase of externalities market failures where residues of the industries value chain affect the environment. The industrial ecology proposes to deal with externalities by using the waste of one process as the input of another. This point is where sustainable entrepreneurship plays a key role encouraging the creation of new innovative decomposer firms that specialize in transforming residues into commercial products. This study focuses on the way that externalities create opportunities for decomposer firms by developing a qualitative case about the cheese value chain represented by a vertically integrated multinational firm in Monterrey (Mexico). The analysis includes the steps proposed as the entrepreneurship model for decomposer firms. The importance for the academia lies in finding that processes and technologies are key in the opportunity creation for this type of firms that emerge from the residues created by the value chains where multinational firms exist.
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Industrial ecology allows the traditional model of industrial activity, where individual manufact... more Industrial ecology allows the traditional model of industrial activity, where individual manufacturing process that takes raw materials in order to generate products, to be transformed into a more comprehensive model of a regional economy named industrial ecosystem. This ecosystem functions through industrial symbiosis alliances formed by firms that cooperate through the exchange of residues in order to use them as inputs to transform them into valuable products. Moreover, the principles of geographical proximity and diversity of the firms have been found in successful ecosystems in developed countries. This study contributes empirically by using social network analysis (SNA) methods to explore, the presence of these two principles in an industrial ecosystem in the Toluca-Lerma region in Mexico, consisting of 30 firms that have industrial symbiosis alliances. We conclude that in the context of developing countries, the symbiotic exchanges may not be fully explained with the principles of geographical proximity and diversity.
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Companies, the engines of economic development, require economic, sociopolitical and environmenta... more Companies, the engines of economic development, require economic, sociopolitical and environmental conditions aligned with their business strategy to achieve global positioning and regional sustainable development. Emerging countries, lacking these factors and conditions, are not capable of fully profiting from the impact of innovation, which limits the development of regions. To break with the rules of conventional regional development, this chapter proposes a mechanism to rethink the impact of innovation on a region and the enabling mechanisms and conditions responsible for it by offering a new systemic approach to innovation. The main drivers, performance characteristics and barriers to regional innovation systems (RIS) are discussed. Successful cases of extraordinary regions around the world suggest that innovation is systemic, and the holistic development of regions requires unique management and governance structures that enable a harmonious, balanced and holistic articulation, capable of producing a better global positioning and differentiation for emerging regions planning to be innovative, sustainable and competitive. This is a profound change of paradigm, transforming the innovation of products and business models into innovative design of systems, of great impact for regions. The paper indicates the innovation drivers in three following emerging countries: Mexico, Colombia, India and Brazil Authors present the cases of Monterrey, Medellin, Bangalore and Curitiba, where efforts of cities and regions have succeeded in limiting factors by becoming clusters of innovation.
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The present Circular Economy Innovation Project (CEIP) was undertaken as part of a PhD in Busines... more The present Circular Economy Innovation Project (CEIP) was undertaken as part of a PhD in Business Administration ongoing research at the EGADE Business School of Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. The CEIP focuses mainly in designing an alternative wealth creating system in order to provide an alternative to the rooted linear approach of businesses, entrepreneurs, inhabitants and governments of developing countries. More specifically, the CEIP provides a roadmap that enable the circularization of multiple linear value chains and stakeholders within a region. Furthermore, it examines and applies the capabilities of methodologies such as systems dynamic modeling in order to design, model and simulate a Latin American community in process of achieving self-sustainability through the circularization of its linear value chains.
To do so, both an extensive literature review based mainly on scientific journals and literature as well as several visits to the community were conducted. Asociación Ecológica de Sierra Picachos A.C. (AESPAC) helped with the arrangement of the multiple semi-structured interviews to the local people and entrepreneurs as well as managed the multiple visits to the most salient economic poles at the village.
The present report summarizes the result of an ongoing research which has been presented and discussed at different national and international conferences, therefore, strengthening its validity. Although the research is not finished, several conclusions have been drawn.
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To do so, both an extensive literature review based mainly on scientific journals and literature as well as several visits to the community were conducted. Asociación Ecológica de Sierra Picachos A.C. (AESPAC) helped with the arrangement of the multiple semi-structured interviews to the local people and entrepreneurs as well as managed the multiple visits to the most salient economic poles at the village.
The present report summarizes the result of an ongoing research which has been presented and discussed at different national and international conferences, therefore, strengthening its validity. Although the research is not finished, several conclusions have been drawn.
To do so, both an extensive literature review based mainly on scientific journals and literature as well as several visits to the community were conducted. Asociación Ecológica de Sierra Picachos A.C. (AESPAC) helped with the arrangement of the multiple semi-structured interviews to the local people and entrepreneurs as well as managed the multiple visits to the most salient economic poles at the village.
The present report summarizes the result of an ongoing research which has been presented and discussed at different national and international conferences, therefore, strengthening its validity. Although the research is not finished, several conclusions have been drawn.