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6. Which of these products was the result of the network model of innovation?

  • Sony walkman
  • Apple iPod
  • Dual cycle (bagless)vacuum cleaner

7. Which of the following is not an example of innovation by an individual?

  • The bagless vacuum cleaner
  • The post-it note
  • The workmate portable bench

8. The innovation process involves both research & development and commercialisation.

  • True
  • False

9. Which of the following are not an example of dominant design?

  • Windows operating system
  • Smart phones
  • Dyson fan
  • QWERTY keyboard

10. What length is the Kondratiev cycle?

  • 50 years
  • 10 years
  • 25 years

11. If radical innovation is at the extreme end of innovation, what type of innovation is at the other end?

  • Incremental innovation
  • Radical innovation

12. What percentage of innovations are radical?

  • 30
  • 10
  • 20

13. The long wave cycle lasts for 50 years.

  • True
  • False

14. There are three forms of innovation; product is one. What are the other two?

  • Process Innovation and service innovation
  • Product innovation

15. What type of innovation involves small changes to existing products/services/processes?

  • Modular
  • Incremental
  • Architectural

16. Which of the following is not a type of innovation?

  • Mathematical
  • Incremental
  • Architectural

17. Which of the following are not on the business model?

  • Value creation
  • Value depreciation
  • Value capture

18. Which of the following is not a technological paradigm?

  • IPod
  • Printing
  • Internet

19. What does coupling model make use of?

  • Extensive use of feedback
  • Extensive use of radical innovation
  • Extensive use of the loss leader
  • Extensive use of new components

20. Which half of the 20th century do you think witnessed the greatest number of big technological changes?

  • 1900-1950
  • 1950-2000