Creating a fertile learning ecosystem for innovation: an integrated programme of alliancing projects approach

Derek H.T. Walker and Peter E.D. Love

Chapter 11 in Research Companion to Innovation in Construction, 2025, pp 224-247 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter focuses on the concept of designing and developing a fertile learning ecosystem for innovation that reduces the ‘stickiness’ of knowledge transfer (Szulanski, 1996) in projects. The Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP), a 15-year programme of alliance projects with an expected programme cost of AU$19.8 billion, provides a rare case study exemplar of a project illustrating strategising for innovation and continuous improvement and making that strategy work to achieve its innovation aspirations. The chapter provides the theoretical basis for analysis and describes the LXRP context to acquaint readers with its background relevance to this chapter's aim. Research findings highlight key innovation-enabling elements of the LXRP procurement choice, strategy,3 and governance mechanisms that illustrate how innovation strategy was turned into action.

Keywords: Megaproject; Innovation; Continuous improvement; Alliancing; Governance; Innovation strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035326587
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