METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ASSESSING THE RESOURCE EFFICIENCY OF INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS 

Nadezhda V. Shmeleva, Candidate of economical sciences, associate professor, associate professor of the sub-department of industrial strategy, National Research Technological University "MISIS" (4 Leninsky avenue, Moscow, Russia), E-mail: nshmeleva@misis.ru 

Background. The importance of the research is caused by the need to search for new approaches and priorities of industrial policy, to develop directions for improving the resource and environmental efficiency of the economy to ensure the technological sovereignty of key sectors of the economy and the country. Theoretical and methodological aspects of ecosystem interaction in industry are considered, a detailed description and comparative analysis of the economic categories "industrial ecosystem", "resource efficiency", "decapling effect" are given. Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the research is the general scientific empirical-theoretical methods of system analysis, abstraction, analysis and synthesis, modeling. The methodology of system analysis serves as a framework that combines all the necessary methods, research techniques, and measures to solve the problem of increasing the resource efficiency of industrial ecosystems. The synergetic approach allows considering the dynamic aspect of the development of enterprises and industrial ecosystems. Results. A comprehensive methodology is proposed to assess the resource efficiency of both individual actors and the industrial ecosystem. The methodology is tested on the example of the industrial ecosystem "Green Cement", functioning based on symbiotic relationships between mining and metallurgical companies and enterprises of the cement industry. Conclusions. The calculations made it possible to conclude that there is an "absolute" decoupling effect in the analyzed industrial ecosystem. The methodological approaches described in the article can be used both separately for express analysis and as a comprehensive tool for resource efficiency of industrial enterprises and ecosystems. 

ecosystem interaction, industrial ecosystem, resource efficiency, decoupling effect 

Shmeleva N.V. Methodological approaches to assessing the resource efficiency of industrial ecosystems. Modeli, sistemy, seti v ekonomike, tekhnike, prirode i obshchestve = Models, systems, networks in economics, technology, nature and society. 2023;(1):70–84. (In Russ.). doi:10.21685/2227-8486-2023-1-4