The larger exchange network
Exchanges of by-products within a park can be supported by embedding them in effective community, regional or state waste exchange programs.
This broader market will give greater resilience to the pattern of trades, maintaining alternative suppliers and customers to step in as business conditions (and companies) change.
Creating the conditions for an EIP exchange network
Whether or not the by-product exchange strategy plays a major role in an EIP will depend in large part upon the self-organizing interactions among companies who agree to participate as well as relationships with future
companies.
The recruiting team cannot control these interactions, but it can offer the conditions that will help companies discover the value of cooperation (Table I).