The paper explores Coastal Energy-Based Industrial Clusters (EBICs) and their role in advancing energy efficiency and sustainability through collaborative innovation. Economic growth theory and energy sustainability have been introduced into industrial clusters to illustrate indicators that have a greater impact on the development of EBICs. This paper proposes an EBICs development model based on the Cobb-Douglas function, in which...

The global push for an energy transition towards renewable sources has placed energy-based industrial clusters (EBICs) at the forefront of this transformation. Chapter twelve introduces into the complex interplay between energy transition and the paradoxes that arise from it, particularly in the context of environmental sustainability and economic development. The industrial hubs of EBICs are to associate coastal resources and...