IPA IP 2020 Question 3
A question IPA Japan published in 令和2年度 10月 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問3, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
When the process of creating a new business in management of technology is classified into four stages, research, development, commercialization, and industrialization, there are barriers such as the launch of a new market and the appearance of competing products to achieving industrialization from commercialization and contributing to the business performance of the company. Which of the following is the most appropriate term that refers to these barriers?
Explanation
Darwinian sea — the barrier between commercializing a product and growing it into an industry that pays off for the company.
Management of technology (MOT) names a barrier between each pair of the four stages of creating a new business:
- •Research → development: the devil's river, where research results fail to become a development project.
- •Development → commercialization: the valley of death, where a developed technology fails to become a product for lack of funds and resources.
- •Commercialization → industrialization: the Darwinian sea, where a product on the market must survive competition, a market still being formed and rival products to grow into a business that earns a profit.
The barriers in the question, launching a new market and competing products appearing, lie between commercialization and industrialization: the Darwinian sea.
Answer (b)
Why not others:
- •(a) — the prisoner's dilemma is a game-theory model in which each side choosing what is best for itself leaves both worse off than cooperating
- •(c) — a firewall is a network security device that filters traffic between networks
- •(d) — the five forces are Porter's framework for analyzing the competition in an industry
Key rule: Research → devil's river → development → valley of death → commercialization → Darwinian sea → industrialization.
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