Abstract: Low efficiency, insufficient impetus as well as instability commonly lied in currently built eco-industrial systems, and these are needed to discuss the evolvement and development of industrial eco-system and the application of its theory. Based on the self-organization theory of systems, we carefully explore three premises: openness, unequilibrium and nonlinearness that define an industrial ecosystem as being self organizing. Evolvement rules of self-organizing industrial ecosystems are also addressed with demonstrations of forest industrial eco-system of Uimaharju in Finland. Unsuitable knowledge exists in relevant studies and applications due to their failing to recognize industrial ecosystem as self organizing rather than being organized during the concept’s development. A fully discussion has been carried out with respect to those biased recognitions and we then come up with principles concerning self organizing capacity cultivation.

Key words: Industrial eco-system, Self-organization, Evolvement, Cultivation