Quiz 4

Question 1

Making synergies between sustainability and technology developments can be a source of:

Answer 1

Reduced inputs and better products

Question 2

Intermediate technology was originally articulated by

Answer 2

Schumpeter

Question 3

Distributed “phronesis” in the sense of Aristotle emerges from companies that pursue:

Answer 3

A universal ideal and a particular reality

Question 4

The key stakeholders of the “Save the Planet Debate” include:

Answer 4

Activists, governments, firms

Question 5

Designing sustainable products thanks to technologies means that:

Answer 5

Products with lowest carbon footprint

Question 6

New research findings by Nidulomu (2009) demonstrate that sustainability-driven technology brings:

Answer 6

Both bottom and top-lines returns

Question 7

Efforts to regulated technology development aims at:

Answer 7

Maintaining the resource system

Question 8

The precautionary principle to limit unintended consequence of technology developments relies on 2 pilars:

Answer 8

Regulation efforts and responsibilities of technology developers

Question 9

Demonstration and small scale experiments must:

Answer 9

Gather small players only

Question 10

Adaptive management means that to manage our built environment and production systems, we are:

Answer 10

Ready and able to modify our ways of acting

Question 11

If its already said that side effects of IoT could be related to:

Answer 11

Cybersecurity

Question 12

Side effect of CAFO:

Answer 12

To stress animals

Question 13

Currently how do most firms get involved in more sustainable technology-developments?

Answer 13

Through

Corporate Social Responsibility

Question 14

A good experimentation of technology and its possible unintended consequences should encompass

Answer 14

The lifecycle from raw materials to their recycling

Question 15

Adaptive management requires to develop skills in monitoring learn about:

Answer 15

The impact of our management actions

Question 16

Nidulomu’s path to sustainable technology developments, creating next practice platforms is about:

Answer 16

Experimenting with all stakeholders

Question 17

The most hopeful technologists optimists in the face of increasing sustainability challenges state that:

Answer 17

It is still a big issue to address

Question 18

According to the LYF shoe presentation, it seems to you that:

Answer 18

Create a profitable business with a sustainability orientation is possible if traditional business models change

Question 19

Appropriate technology is also labeled:

Answer 19

Intermediate technology

Question 20

Adaptive management enables managers to select technology with a sustainability-driven approach thanks to:

Answer 20

Experimenting with local stakeholders

Question 21

A pattern of unsustainable technology development practices deals with problems of:

Answer 21

Societal destruction in the end

Question 22

What are the main features of appropriate technology ?

Answer 22

Smallscale, labor intensive, locally autonomous

Question 23

Sustainability-driven technology development are a source of:

Answer 23

Additional revenue

Question 24

Efforts to regulated technology development aims that at:

Answer 24

Maintaining the resource system

Question 25

The path to sustainability-driven technology developments by Nidulomu et al. (2009) is made of:

Answer 25

5 steps

Question 26

Technology promise is at the crossroads between:

Answer 26

human needs and new tech-capabilities

Question 27

Managers’belief about technology is that it is:

Answer 27

a lever of competitiveness

Question 28

A good experimentation of technology and its possible unintended consequences should encompass:

Answer 28

the lifecycle from raw materials to their recycling

Question 29

In 2007, Nonaka et al. state that effective strategic management processes require:

Answer 29

distributed wisdom

Question 30

Courbe en S de Roger :

Answer 30

courbe de diffusion de l’innovation.

Question 31

The probit model of diffusion underlines that

Answer 31

Firms might be willing to slow down the diffusion