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Innovation is the process by which entrepreneurs convert opportunities into marketable ideas.
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The four basic types of innovation are invention, extension, duplication, and synthesis.
True
Entrepreneurs are always looking for unique opportunities to fill needs or wants.
True
The cognitive ability of entrepreneurs to acquire and transform information has yet to be studied.
False
Creativity, in the entrepreneurial context, is the generation of ideas that result in the improved
efficiency or effectiveness of a system.
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False
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Many inventions and innovations are a result of inventors seeing new and different relationships among
objects, processes, materials, technologies, and people.
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The innovation process allows creative people to subconsciously mull over the information they have
gathered.
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False
The four phases of the creative process are knowledge accumulation, incubation, idea experience, and
evaluation.
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Researchers uniformly agree that the easiest step in the creative endeavor is the implementation and
evaluation phase.
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The left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for logical and analytical skills.
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The creative climate rejects the ambiguity common in work and life.
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False
Incubation in the creative process often occurs when the individual is doing something completely
unrelated to the subject.
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The idea experience phase of the creative process is often the least interesting part of the process.
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True
False
Most innovations result from a conscious and purposeful search for new opportunities.
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False
True
Innovators must always search for new ideas, opportunities, or sources of innovation.
True
Extension is the combination of existing concepts and factors into a new formulation.
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False
Innovation should follow a milestone schedule.
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It is really genius and not hard work that creates success for the entrepreneur.
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True
One of the most helpful avenues for developing one's own creative talents is to be aware of the habits
and mental blocks that stifle creativity.
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Which of the following are keys to understanding opportunity and its development for entrepreneurs?
The right brain helps people understand analogies and imagine things.
Which of the following can help entrepreneurs carry out the evaluation and implementation stage?
seeing new and different relationships in people, objects, and places around them.
Which of the following is not one of the phases in the creative process?
preliminary investigation
those ideas that are workable and that they have the skills to implement.
Security hunting is
trustful management that does not exert strict control over employees
Looking for different or unorthodox relationships among elements and people is one way to develop
creativity. How might a person develop this capacity?
Which of the following terms would not be associated with the right hemisphere of the brain?
linear
Which of the following terms would be associated with the left hemisphere of the brain?
abstract
People's process will remain the same, but their approach will change.
People practice the creative search for background knowledge in which of the following ways:
a and b
advancements in technology
The combination of existing concepts and factors into a new formulation would define which of the
following terms?
synthesis
Ray Kroc's development of McDonald's would be a good illustration of which form of innovation?
extension
incongruities.
Process needs
The phase of the creative process when the idea or solution the individual is seeking is discovered is the
idea experience.
incongruities
demographic changes
Invest in securities.
People with muddling mind-sets exhibit all of the following habits except
process thinking