Product Innovation in Construction

产品的特殊特性和建筑的技术限制使其明显区别于其他形式的制造；这表明创新的过程和支配这一过程的因素将不同。这项调查将破译建筑产品创新的过程，尽管它对建筑技术进步具有巨大的重要性，但一直被研究人员忽视。这项调查将考虑发生在不同建筑项目上的几项成功的产品创新。每个项目将作为一个单独的案例研究的主题，整个研究将使用多个案例设计。从对多个案例的概括中得到的结论和影响不仅将在现有的关于创新过程的知识库中增加建筑业的维度(这是明显缺乏的)，而且通过允许研究人员和行业专业人员将他们的资源集中在开发新产品的创新过程的关键变量上，为建筑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.//