Test Bank for Strategic Management of Technological Innovation 6th Edition Schilling

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 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. 2-1