GInI CInP - Certified Innovation Professional (CInP)

A strong Core Innovation Team requires more than technical capability. Innovation work demands a blend of skills, attitudes, dispositions, and personalities because teams must handle ambiguity, conduct research, generate ideas, test assumptions, collaborate, absorb failure, communicate persuasively, and execute disciplined work across the innovation lifecycle. Option C is therefore the best answer. Past experiences and hard skills matter, but they are not sufficient; a technically skilled person may still be poor at exploration, collaboration, experimentation, or ambiguity tolerance. Option B is superficial because likability does not guarantee innovation effectiveness. Option D is a distractor that sounds clever but is not a professional team-building criterion. Innovation Managers need to deliberately compose teams with complementary traits: curiosity, resilience, creativity, analytical ability, execution discipline, customer empathy, and collaborative behavior. The question is testing team design, not résumé screening. Therefore, the correct answer is C.