44 We witnessed little service innovation in our fieldwork. On some larger schemes, PFI providers sought economies of scale by pooling FM resources across schools. In the early schemes examined there were few examples of better asset utilisation - with only a few notable exceptions (where there are sports facilities, or a community centre/nursery) there was little emphasis on income generation. However, there are indications that innovation is becoming more apparent in some of the newer school PFI schemes - we return to this in the final chapter.