Since Al Gore’s film “An inconvenient truth” sustainability has stood high on the national agenda of most countries. As a result research for sustainability has become an important driver for innovation. According to Rennings (2000) while innovation processes toward sustainable development...

Since the late 1950's, there have been a number of "radical" innovative research activities, where attempts have been made to dramatically improve the manufacturing process for residential building stock. Currently, the UK Government (DoE), under its Partners in Technology (PIT) Scheme, is...

One policy that is believed to increase the rate of innovation and the level of productivity is to move from Design-bid-build contracts (DBB) to Design-Build contracts (DB). A common view is that the latter provides the contractor more degrees of freedom to enable innovation. This hypothesis...

Various drivers of construction innovation are distinguished and classified in four distinctive categories: environmental pressure, technological capability, knowledge exchange, and boundary spanning. Innovation drivers in these categories are active at the transfirm, intrafirm, and interfirm...

Today, evolving technologies have enabled scientific breakthroughs in innovative wind turbine designs, including taller wind turbine towers and longer blades. These breakthroughs will enable utility-scale wind turbines to reach higher into the atmosphere, access stronger winds, and produce...

This paper addresses recent developments within the social shaping perspective, specifically the forward-looking and political dimensions of intervening in processes of innovation. With a focus on the concept of ‘temporary spaces’ as an analytical framework we present a study of a case on...

Various drivers of construction innovation are distinguished and classified in four distinctive categories: environmental pressure, technological capability, knowledge exchange, and boundary spanning. Innovation drivers in these categories are active at the transfirm, intrafirm, and interfirm...

Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been negative over the past two decades. This report provides a detailed examination of output, employment, and productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada and by...