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Successfully implementing innovations in public construction projects : Determining the impact of a public project team’s innovation capability
Boer, Rick de (2023) Successfully implementing innovations in public construction projects : Determining the impact of a public project team’s innovation capability.
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| Abstract: | The Dutch construction sector faces a need for more innovative public projects. Innovation often takes place on a project-level. However, it is unclear which specific abilities are needed by a project team to implement innovations in public projects successfully. By studying the literature on innovation capability, this study explores how the innovation implementation process of four Dutch public projects can be explained, and the success of implementing an innovation be improved. Through a qualitative case study, this research has found the relation between the presence of eighteen innovation abilities in project teams, and the success of an innovation’s implementation in their project designs. The effect of these eighteen abilities on innovation implementation success is explored through a case comparison. The findings result in a framework for public project design teams to determine their innovation capability and lessons to improve future innovation implementation success. Important aspects in the implementation process, like stakeholder involvement and organisational support, can be attained using innovation abilities. This study has found that, through the presence of these abilities, a project team is more successful throughout this implementation process. Furthermore, the framework created to determine the presence of these abilities is a good method of determining possible missing abilities. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Clients: | Witteveen+Bos, Breda, The Netherlands |
| Faculty: | ET: Engineering Technology |
| Subject: | 56 civil engineering |
| Programme: | Construction Management and Engineering MSc (60337) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/95406 |
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