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What is meant by Research and Development (R&D)?
What are prototypes?
What are the benefits of R&D?
What are the limitations of R&D?
What is innovation?
How might successful R&D help to address the unmet needs of customers?
Distinguish between the 4 types of innovation (product, process, positing and paradigm).
Using examples, distinguish between radical and incremental innovation.
What is the difference between adaptive creativity and innovative creativity?
How do the concepts of change, culture and ethics influence the R&D practices of businesses?
TOK CONNECTIONS
TOK CONNECTIONS
Suggested theory of knowledge questions
What is the relationship between imagination and other ways of knowing in introducing innovation?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of using imagination and emotion as a basis for knowledge in the human sciences?
Concepts such as “innovation” are difficult to define. Can we have shared knowledge of concepts so difficult to express through language?
What is the relationship between advances in technology and innovation? Does technology control what is possible to know?
Stop. Think
Stop. Think
Insights Into Innovation - new perspectives
Insights Into Innovation - new perspectives
Growth through Disruptive Innovation and the concept of competing with non-consumption...
Growth through Disruptive Innovation and the concept of competing with non-consumption...
Clayton Christensen is an award-winning Harvard Business School professor and author of five books, including The Innovator's Dilemma, which received the Global Business Book Award. Visit Christensen Website
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