R&D Investment and Impact in the Global Construction Industry

摘要: Innovation is generally considered to contribute the competitive success of fi rms in many different ways (Tidd & Bessant, 2009). Due increasingly shorter lifecycle products and services, are urged innovate at a faster pace. Additionally, construction faced with need order succeed more market respond increased societal pressure meet demand for sustainable cleaner industrial production, higher quality output, lower costs added value. Despite its cross-industry relations, industry tradition-based sector lags behind innovativeness when compared to, example, manufacturing industries. Interactions throughout supply chain ad hoc, project based, knowledge protected due perceived uncertainties vulnerability risks (Egmond Mohammadi, 2011). This forms barrier learning exchange R&D ndings experiences that detrimental innovation (Franco, et al., 2004).