%0 Journal Article %A Patrick Innocenti and Elias Montini and Silvia Menato and Marzio Sorlini %D 2017 %J International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 126, 2017 %T A Multi-Level Approach to Improve Sustainability Performances of Industrial Agglomerations %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10007353 %V 126 %X Documented experiences of industrial symbiosis are always triggered and driven only by economic goals: environmental and (even rarely) social results are sometimes assessed and declared as effects of virtuous behaviours, but are merely casual and un-pursued side externalities. Even worse: all the symbiotic project candidates entailing economic loss for just one of the (also dozen) partners are simply stopped without considering the overall benefit for the whole partnership. The here-presented approach aims at providing methodologies and tools to effectively manage these situations and fostering the implementation of virtuous symbiotic investments in manufacturing aggregations for a more sustainable production. %P 540 - 547