From Finnish AECO Knowledge Ecosystem to Business Ecosystem: Lessons Learned from National Deployment of BIM



Aksenova, G ORCID: 0000-0002-3261-0917, Kiviniemi, ORCID: 0000-0001-6570-0188, Kocaturk, T and Lejeune, A
(2018) From Finnish AECO Knowledge Ecosystem to Business Ecosystem: Lessons Learned from National Deployment of BIM. Construction Management and Economics, 37 (6). pp. 317-335.

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Abstract

Government actors, public agencies, industry and academics have struggled to change the rules of the existing business ecosystem to support the networked practices that were envisioned back in the 1980s with the introduction of building information modelling (BIM). Despite the industry’s far-reaching technological capabilities, BIM has primarily assumed productivity improvement by individual firms, which has not lead to a systemic change in the Finnish architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) business ecosystem. A field study of the Finnish AEC industry has resulted in a critical understanding of why successful and intensive R&D at a national level and wide adoption of BIM technology in Finland has not led to the expected systemic evolution of its AEC business ecosystem. Additionally, a methodology based on inductive grounded theory and historical analysis has been used to capture and identify the evolving and dynamic relationships between various events and actors between 1965 and 2015, which, in turn, has aided in the identification and characterisation of the knowledge and innovation ecosystems. The research findings provide insights for BIM researchers and governments in terms of establishing new policies that will better align BIM adoption with the systemic evolution of business practices in the AEC business ecosystem.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Architecture, engineering and construction industry, business ecosystem, building information modelling, building information modelling adoption, policy development, grounded theory
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 21 Dec 2018 08:14
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 01:08
DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2018.1481985
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3030203