Abstract
ABSTRACTThe amount of municipal solid waste in China is increasing at an unprecedented pace. This is due to continued urbanization and improved standards of living. Waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration technologies offer viable and potentially profitable solutions. Many innovative WTE technologies have emerged in the past decade. This study uses network theory and social network analysis to investigate the evolution of social network structures for WTE technologies considering global network properties, major actors' centrality and collaboration relationships. Using a dataset of patents pertaining to waste heat during the period 2006-2015, this study finds that the overall WTE innovation network exhibits qualities of a Barabasi-Albert (BA) scale-free network with minority organizations linking to abundant organizations. Many of the major participants are involved in WTE research and have developed collaborative relationships. Their innovation network has social network characteristics and is similar to indu...
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