A PARADIGM SHIFT: GENERATION OF OPEN INNOVATION FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING INDUSTRY

Abstract

The building industry has been recognized for its lack of innovation. Currently, a newly innovative paradigm introduced to enhance innovation, is mainly working on collaboration named by “Open Innovation”. It is declared that building industry field is not pioneer in open innovation although literatures and critical reviews on the state of art innovative framework in building industry concludes that collaboration is the main factor that improves innovation performance. Accordingly, that thesis aims to draw an open innovation collaborative framework rather than the state of art, therefor the thesis illustrates the sufficient building industry collaboration projects and activities globally and contextually introducing their factors, inputs and driving forces toward innovation. After additionally, a contextual questionnaire is then constructed in order to test the proposed open innovation framework towards the Egyptian professional innovation context, the outcomes worked as guidelines to draw the Egyptian open innovation building industry framework. Findings highlight that the Egyptian market has a high demand for collaboration in general but not with public and governments. There is a high demand for multinational collaborations. There are several barriers such as financial issue, social skills. There is need for R&D otherwise sharing knowledge with supply chain and applying BIM is a major demand.