ABSTRACT
The world’s largest eco-industrial park, called the Kalundborg Symbiosis, is located in Denmark. Its three largest shareholder-owned corporate partners—Novo Nordisk, Statoil, and Novozymes —are exemplary life-mimicking companies. The commercial and ecological success of Kalundborg resides in thinking and acting as a coordinated group of partners rather than focusing only on individual efficiencies. Looking to the future, the effectiveness of the Kalundborg model is precisely its capacity to mimic the nonlinear processes of Nature. The fractal structure of Kalundborg begins with individual networks in the community, which inform the internal and external networks of resident companies plus scores of derivative networks through the Symbiosis Institute, university collaborations, company supply chains, and the like. The success of Kalundborg presents a new and vastly improved form of capitalism. Unlike the dying remnants of traditional capitalism, which today rely on government financial and regulatory support, this new breed of capitalism is self-sustaining and financially sound.
