Schmidt Steel Corporation lacks the confidence, capital, and capacity to launch its new steel product into full national or international distribution. Even though test market results look promising, what will be management's next step?

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• _____ is a new-product development approach in which one company department works to complete its stage of the process before passing the new product along to the next department and stage.
• A company getting ready to launch a new product must make several decisions. However, the company must first decide on _____.
• During which stage of new-product development is management most likely to estimate minimum and maximum sales to assess the range of risk in launching a new product?
• _____ is the stage of new-product development in which the product and marketing program are tested in more realistic market settings.
• In the product concept stage of new-product development, the product is merely a _____.
• Introducing a new product into the market is called _____.
• _____ is a period of slow sales growth as the product is introduced into the market. Profits are nonexistent in this stage because of the heavy expenses of product introduction.
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• _____ is the development of original products, product improvements, product modifications, and new brands through the firm’s own R&D efforts.
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