Pro-innovation bias in constructionenablers and risks

Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2012 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 787-796

  Loosemore, M ^a   Holliday, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barriers; Bias; Enablers; Innovation; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911889202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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