Product Innovation in Construction

产品的独特特性和建筑的技术约束使其与其他形式的制造业显著不同；这表明创新的过程和控制这一过程的因素是不同的。本研究将解读建筑产品创新的过程，这一过程一直被研究人员所忽视，尽管它对建筑技术进步具有巨大的重要性。本调查将考虑几个成功的产品创新，发生在不同的建设项目。每个项目将是一个单独案例研究的主题，研究作为一个整体将使用多案例设计。从多个案例的概括中获得的结论和启示不仅将在现有的创新过程知识库中增加构建的维度（这是明显缺乏的），但通过允许研究人员和行业专业人士将资源集中在开发新产品创新过程中的关键变量上，从而为建筑行业本身的技术进步做出贡献。//

The peculiar characteristics of the products and the technological constraints of construction significantly differentiate it from other forms of manufacturing; this suggests that the process of innovation and factors governing this process will differ. This investigation will decipher the process of product innovation in construction, which has been neglected by researchers despite its immense importance to the technological advancement of construction. This investigation will consider several successful product innovations that occurred on different construction projects. Each project will be the subject of an individual case study, and the study as a whole will use a multiple.case design. The conclusions and implications obtained form the generalizations across the multiple cases will not only add construction's dimension (which is conspicuously lacking) to the existing knowledge base regarding the process of innovation, but contribute to the technological progress in the construction industry itself by allowing researchers and industry professionals to focus their resources on the critical variables of the innovation process in developing new products.//