While construction is often seen as a low-technology sector, it has witnessed substantial changes in practices, processes, technology and performance over the past 20 years. Understanding the sources of these changes is important for innovation strategy and policy to improve performance within...

This chapter investigates the relationship between product innovation and firm performance. We apply a logistic regression to predict product innovation using a number of explanatory variables of which firm growth is of principal interest. We study the relationship at two different time periods...