Strategic Roadmaps for Construction Innovation: Assessing the State of Research

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dc.contributor.authorFroese, Thomas M.
dc.contributor.authorRankin, Jeff H.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-19T20:58:36Z
dc.date.available2019-08-19T20:58:36Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractA strategic planning initiative was undertaken to advance innovation in the Canadian construction industry. A preliminary step in this strategic planning process was to carry out an inventory of the current state of research relating to the construction process that was conducted within Canadian Universities. It was found that this type of current research inventory was not often included in strategic planning initiatives, but has proven to be a valuable contribution to the process. The paper describes the research inventory initiative and briefly summarizes the resulting picture of the construction research landscape in Canada. This methodology involved collecting summaries of over 100 individual research projects, mainly through direct interviews, and deriving a series of research classifications through a clustering analysis of the results. The projects were classified according to the three dimensions of application area, technology, and innovation lifecycle phase forming a framework for analysis (resulting in three distinct roadmaps of current Canadian construction research). Further dimensions of scale, drivers, and time are then added to further assist the ongoing strategic planning process. Two examples of opportunities and activities underway to improve the innovation climate are discussed as they relate to the use of the framework. The scope of the strategic planning process is expanding in scope to include other stakeholders in the process (e.g., industrial research, users of technology). The results are expected to provide an underlying planning, coordination, and dissemination foundation to improve the ability for the research community to contribute to innovation in the Canadian construction industry. Key beneficiaries of this paper are individuals involved in creating and using industry-level strategic plans for construction innovation. The timeframe for the discussed roadmap is 0-2 years.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationFroese, T. & Rankin, J.H. (2009). Strategic Roadmaps for Construction Innovation: Assessing the State of Research. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 14, 400-411. http://www.itcon.org/2009/26en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.itcon.org/paper/2009/26
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11045
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Information Technology in Constructionen_US
dc.subjectConstruction Research
dc.subjectroadmap
dc.subjectstrategic planning
dc.subjectCanada
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Civil Engineering
dc.titleStrategic Roadmaps for Construction Innovation: Assessing the State of Researchen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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