Setting the Game Plan: The Role of Clients in Construction Innovation and Diffusion

Clients Driving Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 78-87

  Widén, Kristian ^a   Atkin, Brian ^a   Hommen, Leif ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

'innovation process' models; 'systems of innovation' (SI) models; Communication across organisational boundaries; Current innovation framework; Public procurement for stimulating innovation; Public private partnerships (PPPs); Sectoral systems of innovation (SSIs); Setting the game plan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866434418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301342.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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