1.Firms often collaborate with a number of external organisations (or individuals) in their innovation activities. Firms are most likely to collaborate with ____________.

a.suppliers

b.customers

c.universities

d.All three answers are correct.

2.Different dimensions have been used to distinguish types of innovation. Which one does not fall in any of such dimensions?

a.Competence enhancing versus competence destroying innovation

b.Product versus process innovation

c.Radical versus incremental innovation

d.Service versus process innovation

3.Firms often use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate which projects should be _________.

a.none of the answers are correct

b.funded

c.investigated

d.closed

4.The dominant design ___________ embodies the most advanced technological features available at the time of its emergence.

a.sometimes

b.always

c.none of the answers are correct

d.rarely

5. Some of the advantages of collaboration include _________ costs and risks of development, combining complementary skills and resources, enabling the transfer of knowledge between firms and the joint creation of new knowledge, and facilitating the creation of shared standards.

a.increasing

b.no cost at all

c.sharing

d.All three answers are correct.