Staging negotiation games for developing an industrial symbiosis playbook

Industrial symbiosis may be seen as an open innovation effort that enables sustainable societal transitions. Denmark has a strong tradition of industrial symbiosis, exemplified by the Kalundborg symbiosis. However, transferring these successes to other symbiosis projects has proved difficult since symbiosis facilitators have yet to synthesise their knowledge and experiences into a fruitful IS framework to guide future IS projects. In the Grøn project in Northern Jutland, 8 facilitators from different organisations with different experience levels were to reflect, share and synthesise their knowledge and experience with facilitating 20 symbiosis projects. In this paper, we demonstrate how the staging negotiation spaces co-design framework (SNS) is employed to stage and analyse these micro-level interactions between symbiosis facilitators with special attention towards how games enable the IS facilitators’ reflection and dialogue and stimulate creativity leading to developing a playbook for facilitating future innovative industrial symbiosis projects.