Policies, programs and people that shape innovation in housing /
Businesses, consumers, industry groups, and governments understand the importance of innovation and the innovation process for continued economic success and improvements in quality of life. However, innovation remains an opaque topic. A paradox exists in housing at-large; using innovation is vital...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) :
Momentum Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Housing innovations collection.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Innovating the house
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Green building technology diffusion
- References
- 2. Understanding innovation and the challenges of innovation in housing
- 2.1 Innovation paradoxes
- 2.2 What is innovation in housing?
- 2.3 Diffusion models
- 2.4 The retrospective bias
- 2.5 Housing and path dependency
- 2.6 What are the attributes of housing that act as barriers to innovation?
- 2.7 Is the green challenge leading to more innovation in housing?
- References
- 3. The literature of innovation in housing
- 3.1 Background
- 3.2 Builder as innovation laggard
- 3.3 Innovation in construction
- 3.4 Innovation in residential construction and housing
- 3.5 Nonhousing innovation research
- 3.6 Commercial real estate
- 3.7 Conclusions
- References
- 4. The policy context for adopting and diffusing U.S. homebuilding technology
- 4.1 What is the policy innovation problem?
- 4.2 Naming the policy problem
- 4.3 Reframing the problem
- 4.4 Examples of public policy and homebuilding innovation
- 4.5 1960s to 1970s: CITP and Operation Breakthrough
- 4.6 1990s to 2000s: Energy Star, Building America, and the PATH
- 4.7 Policy vehicles
- 4.8 Conclusions: policy context and strategy
- 5. A review of the residential construction supply chain and its characteristics
- 5.1 The innovative milieu of residential construction
- 5.2 Residential construction as CoPS
- 5.3 The residential construction industry
- 5.4 Innovative trends in residential construction
- 5.5 Residential construction uncertainty
- 5.6 Conclusions
- References
- 6. The residential construction supply chain and its stakeholders
- 6.1 The residential supply chain
- 6.2 The residential path to market
- 6.3 Residential product attributes
- 6.4 First trial conclusions
- 6.5 Continued use conclusions
- 6.6 Specialty products and local market barriers
- 6.7 Residential product commercialization
- 6.8 Moving forward: the role of the builder in the diffusion of residential construction innovation
- 6.9 Builders' innovative trends
- 6.10 Conclusions
- References
- Index.