Across
- 3. Compromising between the benefits of resources to achieve results; giving up on a benefit for a more desirable one; an exchange of one resource for another.
- 5. Involving things that are located nearby.
- 6. Having close, shared relationships.
- 8. This occurs when a new user applies an existing innovation developed for one purpose in a different function.
- 9. The spontaneous generation of ideas in a group setting or independently.
- 13. This is looking up information in order to find out about something.
- 14. Very fast growth; increasingly rapid.
- 15. A product of the imagination. A brand new idea, product, or process usually made after study and experimentation.
- 16. This is an impact that you are surprised by.
- 17. This is the process of trying to minimize unwanted, negative impacts of a new technology.
- 18. This is an impact that was not necessarily the purpose, but is not a surprise either.
Down
- 1. Involving the entire world.
- 2. The ability to successfully interact with technology and make informed decisions.
- 4. The act or process of improving something.
- 7. This is an impact that you meant to happen; on purpose.
- 10. This is an impact that you did not mean to happen.
- 11. This is the technical process of converting knowledge into a physical form; making something after researching.
- 12. A process of change and development.
- 15. The result of a series of refinements that improve an invention over time.