Inventions and Innovations: An Evolutionary Process

The rate of technological development is __________.

• Rapidly decreasing

• Rapidly increasing

• Slowly increasing

• Slowly decreasing

A new and useful tool or process is called an __________?

• Invention

• Innovation

• Culture shift

• Technology transfer

______________ is a series of refinements to an original idea or product.

• Technology transfer

• Invention

• Innovation

• Culture shift

What event from the early 1900s had the most significant impact on the development of technology?

• The development of mechanical labor

• The development of the assembly line

• The development of steam power

• The development of electricity

Most development of technologies these days is driven by ________.

• Politics

• Profit motives

• Morals

• Ethics

 _________________ allow companies and individuals to protect their product designs from being copied and produced without their permission.

• Lawsuits

• Patents

• Trademarks

• Original sketches

Specific, goal-directed research conducted by a company to design new innovations is called _________.

• Engineering design

• Research and development

• Technical know-how

• Technology transfer

2. Research and development is used for the following purposes:

• To reverse-engineer a product and to develop new products

• To reverse-engineer a product and discover new scientific/technical knowledge

• To develop new products and discover new scientific/technical knowledge

• To develop new products and improve a company’s operations

Product design/development is driven by the ___________ or the needs of the intended consumer.

• Consumer

• Market

• School

• Company

Research and Design is often broken into two categories.

• Control and Not-controlled

• Consumer and Non-Consumer

• Non-experimental and Experimental

• Trend and Fad