5 Written Questions

1. The phase of a technology cycle in which companies innovate by lowering costs and improving the functioning and the performance of the dominant technological design
2. A new technological design or process that becomes the accepted market standard
3. When a new dominant design prevents a company from competitively selling its products or makes it difficult to do so
4. The purchase of new technologies to replace older ones
5. A psychological state of effortlessness, in which you become completely absorbed in what you're doing and time seems to pass quickly

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Workplace cultures in which workers perceive that new ideas are welcomed, valued, and encouraged
   1. Creative Work Environment
   2. Design Competition
   3. Organizational Innovation
   4. Creativity
2. The successful implementation of creative ideas in organizations
   1. Organizational Change
   2. Innovation Streams
   3. Organizational Innovation
   4. S-Curve Pattern of Innovation
3. When a scientific advance or a unique combination of existing technologies creates a significant breakthrough in performance or function
   1. Technology Cycle
   2. Technological Substitution
   3. Technological Discontinuity
   4. Technological Lockout
4. A pattern of technological innovation characterized by slow initial progress, then rapid progress, and then slow progress again as a technology matures and reaches its limits
   1. Organizational Innovation
   2. Creativity
   3. Creative Work Environment
   4. S-Curve Pattern of Innovation
5. Patterns of innovation over time that can create sustainable competitive advantage
   1. Organizational Change
   2. Dominant Design
   3. Creativity
   4. Innovation Streams

5 True/False Questions

1. Creativity → The production of novel and useful ideas

   True        False

2. Technology Cycle → A cycle that begins with a birth of a new technology and ends when that technology reaches its limits and is replaced by a newer, substantially better technology

   True        False

3. Design Competition → A new technological design or process that becomes the accepted market standard

   True        False

4. Discontinuous Change → The phase of a technology cycle in which companies innovate by lowering costs and improving the functioning and the performance of the dominant technological design

   True        False

5. Organizational Change → The successful implementation of creative ideas in organizations

   True        False