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The global challenge of sustainable value creation can be coped with by raising human awareness about it all around the world. Increasing process effectiveness and efficiency in view of shrinking natural resources, increasing competitiveness and profitability by selling functionality and service instead of physical products give strategic references for the development of the so called sustainable manufacturing community (SMC). Ubiquitous application of modern information and communication technology (ICT) for shaping responsible global citizenship by knowledge transfer can expand learning and teaching productivity by magnitudes, can strengthen the leverage of help for self-help, can enable initiative and creativity for entrepreneurial approaches in the global village without losing local differentiation. Elements of an architecture for an SMC and the concrete case of smart wheel urban mobility with an outlook for an exemplary German Vietnamese collaboration perspective are considered.

The concept of Industrial Symbiosis aims at organizing industrial activity like a living ecosystem where the by-product outputs of one process are used as valuable raw material input for another process. A significant method for the systematic planning of Industrial Symbiosis is found in input-output matching, which is aimed at collecting material input and output data from companies, and using the results to establish links across industries. The collection and classification of data is crucial to the development of synergies in Industrial Symbiosis. Public and private institutions involved in the planning and development of Industrial Symbiosis rely however on manual interpretation of information in the course of creating synergies. Yet, the evaluation and analysis of these data sources on Industrial Symbiosis topics is a tall order. Within this chapter a method is presented which describes value creation activities according to the Value Creation Module (VCM). They are assessed before they are integrated in Value Creation Networks (VCNs), where alternative uses for by-products are proposed by means of iterative input-output matching of selected value creation factors.