Table of contents - Special Issue: Global innovation
Guest Editors: Dr John E. Tookey
Client's championing characteristics that promote construction innovation
Kushan Kulatunga, Udayangani Kulatunga, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard HaighClients or users of products, processes or services are currently being identified as potential sources of innovation in construction. There are concerns about the degree of…
User‐driven innovation in a construction material supply network
Søren Wandahl, Alexia Jacobsen, Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Søren Bolvig Poulsen, Henrik SørensenUser‐driven innovation (UDI) has been proven to successfully increase the value of products and services in single companies with direct linkages to the end‐user. The construction…
A methodology for evaluating construction innovation constraints through project stakeholder competencies and FMEA
Martina Murphy, George Heaney, Srinath PereraThe purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for extracting innovation constraints from building projects through stakeholder management competencies and failure mode and…
Colleges as agents for construction innovation
Roy MorledgeThe purpose of this paper is to highlight the low level of adoption of innovative products in the UK. The paper presents a case study conducted for investigating the potential for…
Adopting innovative procurement techniques: Obstacles and drivers for adopting public private partnerships in New Zealand
Tingting Liu, Suzanne WilkinsonAlthough public‐private partnerships (PPPs) have been used internationally, the New Zealand Government has only recently started to consider using PPPs to deliver public assets…
Innovations in domotics: fulfilling potential or hampered by prevailing technological regime?
Emilia L.C. van Egmond‐de Wilde de Ligny, Masi MohammadiThe purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning, as well as the drivers, of innovation in theory and practice for gaining insight into the reasons why the diffusion of…
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1471-4175e-ISSN:
1477-0857ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Peng Wu
- Professor Srinath Perera