Across
- 4. An agreement from a government office to give someone the right to make or sell a new invention for a certain number of years.
- 7. An improvement in the organization and/or method of manufacture that often leads to reduced costs or benefits to consumers.
- 10. The fourth fastest group to adopt an innovation. They do so after it has been established in the marketplace and are seldom willing to take risks with new innovation.
- 11. A new idea is needed as a result of demand from the marketplace.
Down
- 1. The basic configuration stays the same, but one or more key components are changed.
- 2. An appraisal of economic viability of the proposed design from a market perspective, taking into account fixed and variable costs and pricing. It is typically a summary about potential users and the market.
- 3. A product becomes outdated as a conscious act either to ensure a continuing market or to ensure that safety factors and new technologies can be incorporated into later versions of the product.
- 5. On occasion, the inventor is also the product champion and/or entrepreneur. This requires specific skill sets and actions to fulfil these roles and the reason inventors often take on multiple roles. Effective design draws from multiple areas of expertise, and this can be utilised at different stages of product development.
- 6. An individual working outside or inside an organization who is committed to the invention of a novel product and often becomes isolated because he or she is engrossed with ideas that imply change and are resisted by others.
- 8. The last to adopt an innovation. They tend to prefer traditions and are unwilling to take risks.
- 9. An indication that an application for a patent has been applied for but has not yet been processed. The marking serves to notify those copying the invention that they may be liable for damages (including back-dated royalties), once a patent is issued.