Strategic Management of Technological Innovation notes

True/False 1. Sometimes knowing a field too well can stifle creativity. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate Page: 19 Chapter 02 Sources of Innovation 2. The organization’s structure, routines, and incentives can thwart individual creativity, but not amplify it. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate Page: 20 3. Sometimes paying people for suggestions undermines creativity because it focuses their shift on extrinsic motivation. Answer: True Difficulty: Hard Page: 20 4. Though a gener...

Test Bank for Strategic Management of Technological Innovation 6th Edition Schilling 8. Firms consider their in-house R&D to be their least important source of innovation, but still feel it is necessary to possess. Answer: False Difficulty: Easy Page: 25 9. The most frequent collaborations are between firms and their customers, suppliers, and local universities. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate Page: 26 10. A complementor is a company or individual that produces goods or services that...

Test Bank for Strategic Management of Technological Innovation 6th Edition Schilling 45. _____ is a positive externality of research and development efforts. a. Knowledge broker b. Agglomeration c. Technological spillover d. Technology cluster Answer: c Difficulty: Easy Page: 35 2-11 Essay 46. You have just been given an assignment within your company to design a creativity training program. Describe the elements you would include in the program and explain the rationale of each one...

True/False 1. Sometimes knowing a field too well can stifle creativity. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate Page: 19 Chapter 02 Sources of Innovation 2. The organization’s structure, routines, and incentives can thwart individual creativity, but not amplify it. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate Page: 20 3. Sometimes paying people for suggestions undermines creativity because it focuses their shift on extrinsic motivation. Answer: True Difficulty: Hard Page: 20 4. Though a gener...

Test Bank for Strategic Management of Technological Innovation 6th Edition Schilling 8. Firms consider their in-house R&D to be their least important source of innovation, but still feel it is necessary to possess. Answer: False Difficulty: Easy Page: 25 9. The most frequent collaborations are between firms and their customers, suppliers, and local universities. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate Page: 26 10. A complementor is a company or individual that produces goods or services that...

Test Bank for Strategic Management of Technological Innovation 6th Edition Schilling 45. _____ is a positive externality of research and development efforts. a. Knowledge broker b. Agglomeration c. Technological spillover d. Technology cluster Answer: c Difficulty: Easy Page: 35 2-11 Essay 46. You have just been given an assignment within your company to design a creativity training program. Describe the elements you would include in the program and explain the rationale of each one...