Sources of Innovation Ch2

Chapter 2
Sources of Innovation

True/False

1. Sometimes knowing a field too well can stifle creativity.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Moderate
Page: 19

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 generalist by nature, inventors are specialists in the field in which they invent.

Answer: False
Difficulty: Moderate
Page: 21

5. Innovation often originates with those who create solutions for their own needs.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 22

6. The qualities that make people inventive do not necessarily make them entrepreneurial.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Moderate
Page: 22

7. Manufacturers typically create new product innovations in order to profit from the sale of the innovation to customers.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Moderate
Page: 23

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 enhance the value of another product.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 27

11. The creation of university technology transfer offices accelerated rapidly in the United States after the Bayh-Dole Act was passed.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Page: 28

12. The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program facilitates partnerships between small businesses and nonprofit research institutions.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Moderate
Page: 29

13. Science parks often