From Tinkering to Transitioning
DOI: 10.4121/17ce1dec-6160-45f9-aaa5-f5af88f027c0
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The construction industry faces numerous challenges such as ensuring safety, reliability, and sustainability amidst material scarcity. Innovations often emerge spontaneously, driven by hands-on participants addressing everyday issues, but systemic change requires structured innovation processes. Public agencies play crucial roles in governing these processes, yet face barriers like rigid structures and resistance to change. This research explores how public agencies can effectively govern innovation processes from initiation to implementation in the construction industry.
The study employs a process research approach, integrating science and practice through action research. It comprises four steps: identifying public construction innovation capabilities, understanding their deployment, enhancing reflective practices via a serious game, and applying these practices in real-world settings. The research highlights the importance of absorptive, adoptive, and adaptive capabilities for recognising, demonstrating, and scaling innovations. Semi-structured interviews and narrative inquiry with professionals at the Province of North Holland validate these capabilities. The research further explores the positioning of these capabilities within public agencies, suggesting a dual operating system combining hierarchical and network-centric approaches. A serious game designed to enhance reflective practices fosters critical thinking and problem-solving, revealing strategies to address innovation challenges. Action research in three innovation environments demonstrates the interplay between individual, team, and organisational levels, emphasising the need for cooperation, strategic alignment, and continuous learning.
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- 2025-05-04 first online, published, posted
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- Provincie Noord-Holland
