1 AN ANALYSIS OF DRIVERS AND BARRIERS OF CONSTRUCTION INNOVATION Tolga Ilter 1 , Attila Dikbas 2 and Deniz Ilter 3 1 iltert@itu.edu.tr 2 dikbas@itu.edu.tr 3 artande@itu.edu.tr 1,2,3 Istanbul Technical University, Project Management Center 34469 Maslak Istanbul TURKEY ABSTRACT Innovation is a key to competitive advantage in the construction industry, enabling firms to contend with major changes occurring in the market and to achieve the objectives in a specific project or over a range of projects. Accordingly, innovation studies have become an established part of construction management discipline with respect to the academic research undertaken and to the wide application in practice. However, knowledge base in the discipline is still developing and there is a genuine need to identify the research trends and neglected areas in the literature. This paper attempts to overview and organise the many innovation drivers and barriers that have been identified in construction innovation literature and analyse the source articles within a meta-classification framework proposed. Peer reviewed articles tackling the subject are analysed and classified in terms of research stream, level of analyses, stage of life-cycle, sources of information, contribution of the articles and backgrounds of authors. Based on the findings, the paper presents future research suggestions for the discipline. Keywords: Construction, Discipline review, Innovation Barriers, Innovation Drivers 1. INTRODUCTION Academic journals are platforms where communication of research findings and scholarly debate take place. In the academic world, communication is central to the promotion of knowledge and while there are many forms of communication channels, the most permanent and durable are the published literature, especially refereed academic journals. An established refereed journal is a repository of good and novel insights gained from data-based research, scholarly enquiry, rigorous analysis of experience and careful logical debate about an issue or phenomenon (Betts and Lansley, 1993). The analysis of mainstream journals is well established (Sengupta, 1992) and occurs not just in the core scientific and social scientific disciplines. The analysis of a single journal as a case study provide a historical record, describe the information characteristics of a journal and give an opportunity to assess the editorial policies or develop recommendations for future policies and publication gaps to be filled (Betts and Lansley, 1993). On the other hand, analysing a broader sample can provide a map