A Downside of Using Internal Incubators for Technology Development Is

question 48

Multiple Choice

A downside of using internal incubators for technology development is that:

• A) technology developed by the company would be controlled by the parent company.
• B) the company has to reinvest in a new incubator candidate if the existing one has obtained venture capital financing.
• C) the company has to develop technology which will not be used by their own business operations.
• D) technology developed in the incubator will never be launched.

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