In Turkey similar to other developing countries, Architecture, Engineering and Construction
Industries are very important for the development of the country due to the decisive status in the economy and
the employment volume they generate. In order to develop innovative strategies to shape the future of the
industry, which is a complex production system that is formed by architecture, engineering and construction
industries, regulatory organizations, suppliers, operators, end users, customers, knowledge and information
sources, actors that influence innovation process should be understood thoroughly. Architectural design
offices, which are among those actors, are very important for the architecture, engineering and construction
industry due to their critical roles in the built process. For this reason a field research has been designed to
better understand the roles of architectural design offices and the factors influencing the innovation process
within the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry. The goal of the research was to understand
and interpret the whole process of innovation therefore a qualitative research method has been selected.
Sampling method has been used in order to ensure that persons that are considered as large information
sources become a part in the research. A priori defined 13 architectural design offices are the analyses unit of
this research. Due to the preferred research method one of the limits of the work carried out is the confined
analyses unit. For data collection a semi structured interview method has been used. Data has been collected
from the analyses unit between the dated June 9 and July 16, 2009 via face to face interviews. In this paper the
research process is described