Promoting Innovation : Conditions, Mechanisms and Methodologies

This volume presents a technical note with the aim of increasing innovation and the uptake of research in the building services industry by demonstrating what are good conditions for innovation and what are the barriers to it.

The book covers both process-type research and innovation, ie how construction is undertaken, and technology type research and innovation, i.e., the uptake of new systems and their method of application.

Some of the case studies that were developed as part of the research have been used through the text to illustrate key points.