One common everyday object, Post-It Notes, is the product of a bootleg project at 3M, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. The company allowed researchers to spend 15% of their time on their own ideas. Dr. Silver was and took the time away from his assigned work to develop the idea. a. empoweredb. under-employedc. sidelined

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t