WorksheetsInnovation and Creativity
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following is the most important factor in forcing companies to focus on innovation?
Organisational culture
Intense competition
Entrepreneurship
Government laws
Research shows that entrepreneurial companies need to generate 2 or 3 ideas for developing new products in order to select the best one.
True
False
What is the challenge of creativity and innovation?
They refer to the same thing
Too often there is an assumption that creativity automatically leads to actual innovation
They are two different concepts that are hard to be put together
What is a market gap?
A whole in the market
A nation's lack of innovativeness
An opportunity that can be exploited by an entrepreneur
Shortage of funds in the innovation process
Restriction in the flow of new products
What innovation examples teach us is that curiosity, scientific investigation, and observation, as well as deep empathy led to the discovery of innovative solutions to important human needs and problems – solutions we still benefit from today.
True
False
What is the central component of the Entrepreneurship process?
The opportunity
The entrepreneur
Resources
The organisation
Innovation is a major factor in competition because it can:
help a company expand overseas
guarantee the monopoly position of innovative companies
reduce research and development costs for companies
enable companies to make competitors' products obsolete
Which two main factors influence the creativity-innovation-entrepreneurship model? (select two)
Money factors
Push factors
Pull factors
Time factors
Which of the following is not an aspect that has driven creative thinking, technological progress, and innovation throughout human history?
Innovators exploiting a trend that was gaining momentum
Innovators addressing a need that wasn’t met
Innovators using an existing skill or asset in a new way
Innovators sticking with what has always worked
Creativity arises through the confluence of the following three components:
Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship
Societal, technology and economic trends
Knowledge, creative thinking and motivation
Problem solving, social networks and marketing
Which of the following is an important source of idea generation due to their familiarity with the needs of market?
Advertising methods
State government
Customers
Disposable income
The iPhone is an example of:
creativity
invention
innovation
entreprneurship
The action of making an association between two unlike things to obtain new insights refers to:
Problem reversal
Attribute listing
Forced analogy
Mind mapping
Environmental blockages to creativity are those imposed upon us by external factors, including:
Failure to understand and acknowledge problems that need to be solved
Inability to communicate your ideas to others
The working atmosphere and distractions
Judging rather than generating ideas
How awesome is this subject? (select all correct answers)
Soooo awesome!
Really really awesome!
Veeeeery awesome!
Just pure awesomeness!!
