A firm that follows an imitative innovation strategy, where the goal is to get to market with an equivalent or slightly better product very quickly once someone else opens up the market, rather than to be first to market with new products or technologies Sometimes called an imitator or a "fast follower "
Instrument which can determine qualitatively and quantitatively the components in a mixture
An optical device, capable of producing plane-polarized light, used for detecting the state of polarization