Worksheetsinventions and innovations
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 24mins
Identify the driver of innovation that motivate designers and engineers to design & engineer new products & solutions.
Hope, skills, choice of materials & entrepreneurship
Creative interest, curiosity, make money & helping others
Research, investigation, subject knowledge & skills
Design thinking, empathy, technical knowledge & research
A lone inventor is a creative individual. What is a definition of someone who is described as a lone inventor?
An individual working inside or outside of an organisation
Any person who has good ideas to solve design based problems
A designer that designs and manufactures a product
A creator of products that never diffuse into the marketplace
Intellectual property is defined as exclusive rights to creations of the mind. Which of the following would be examples of IP rights?
Contracts, forms & agreements
Declaration, accords & contracts
Certificates of ownership, company logo
Copyright, trademarks, & patents
What is a patent?
A recognisable design that distinguishes one design idea from competing companies
A document that protects the designer from others taking legal action
An agreement for an individual to have the right to sell a new invention for certain
number of years.
A document that enables designer to charge a higher sales price for their product
A product that is first to market, with a new technology, can also create a new market with a new category. What is a term that can be given to a product that possesses the features that are required & desired by the user?
Desirable
Innovative
Dominant
Creative
What restrictions or reasons might there be for a patented technology to be shelved?
Poor sales, lack of advertising & marketing strategy
Cost effectiveness, timing, & social.
Quality control & assurance issues
Product recalls, health & safety issues
Which of the following terms best describe invention?
Being the first to market with a new idea or concept
Identifying new materials & processes and applying them successfully to a new idea
An idea or thought that remains secret to the inventor
The process of discovering a principle, a technical advance resulting in a novel product
Which of the following best describes innovation?
The idea must be put into action and be diffused into the marketplace
Any innovative thought or process that results in a new product
Creative outcome to a design problem that is solved in an innovative way
A product with high sales volumes in it growth phase
What statement would describe the reason why the Apple i-Pod Shuffle was considered to be a piece of disruptive technology?
Colour schemes were varied and unexpected by the market
Radically changed the way we listen to and buy music
The price point was too high when it was first introduced
It did not function as expected and caused consumers problems
What is meant by process innovation?
Implementation of a new or significantly improved production or delivery method.
Developing a design idea from a sketch to a virtual model
Using a design process to develop more innovative solutions
The creative process by which new ideas diffuse to the marketplace
What is meant by the term modular innovation?
Innovating new ideas by using disparate parts to manufacture products
Where the architecture of the product is maintained and the modules are modified
A sudden insight or revelation, which suggests a solution, or the means of achieving a solution is an example of:
Chance
Lucky
Act of insight, a eureka moment
Once in a lifetime opportunity
James Dyson used the cyclonic principle from one application and integrated into his design for his new vacuum cleaner during the 1990’s. How is this transfer of principle best described?
As an analogy
As an anthology
As an adaptation
As an algorithm
