ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the role of innovation brokers in innovation will be identified, and their contribution to innovation processes in construction. It reviews a variety of different perspectives, and evaluates their contribution from the perspective of the role of innovation brokers in construction innovation. The chapter provides a definition of 'innovation broker' as applied to the construction case, and suggests some of the research issues around organizations. In essence, the proposition is that the process of innovation in construction cannot be understood by borrowing analytic frameworks from the industries to which the life-cycle model applies, but by developing an analytic framework appropriate to the needs of construction as a complex systems industry. Pioneering research during the early 1990s by a team from l'Universite de Quebec a Montreal and the University of Sussex developed the notion of complex product systems and the complex systems industries that produce them.
