Cutting-Edge Carvers Inc. is a recently established online vendor that sells custom luxury products made from wood on automated lathes. Before opening for business, the company studied the problems that companies using a similar technology had experienced. Cutting-Edge Carvers was therefore able to avoid their costly mistakes. Cutting-Edge Carvers would be an example of a(n)
A)corporate entrepreneur.
B)product champion.
C)executive champion.
D)intrapreneur.
E)technology follower.

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Cutting-Edge Carvers Inc. is an example of a technology follower because they studied the problems experienced by companies using similar technology and were able to avoid those mistakes, indicating they did not pioneer the technology but followed and improved upon the existing methods.