New Product Development: Practice and Research

Advanced Materials & Process Technology Center
The Advanced Materials and Processes Technology Information Analysis Center (AMPTIAC) is an Information Analysis Center (IAC) chartered by the Department of Defense to serve as a government and industry focal point for materials and structures including Ceramic Information Analysis Center (CIAC), High-Temperature Materials Information Analysis Center (HTMIAC), Metals Information Analysis Center (MIAC), Metal Matrix Composites Information Analysis Center (MMCIAC), and Metals & Ceramics Information Center (MCIC). Site provides information on center products and services, an online library, and online inquiries.

Biomass Resource Clearinghouse
Site provides an extensive searchable library of reports on a wide variety of biomass resources.

Biospace
Bioscience-specific "hub" site providing profiles of bioscience companies, industry resources and the BioSpace Career Center.

British Columbia Health Industries Network
The information in this section was taken from the "What To Do With Your Idea for a New Medical Device" Commercialization Handbook, published by the SPARK Health Industry Steering Committee in 1991.

The Canadian Technology Network
The Canadian Technology Network links federal and provincial government labs and agencies, universities, community colleges, industry associations, technology centres and economic development agencies. Together these organizations provide innovative Canadian companies with quick and personal access to expertise, advice and information about how to meet technology and related business challenges. They also have a very powerful search engine on their site.

Datamonitor
Site is in development and will provide market reports, competitor profiles, customer focused reports, analysis of issues, forecasts and news.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
The EFF online library is one of the largest collections of online civil liberties material in the world, with over 420 megabytes of material in more than 14,000 individual documents. Site offers free access to searchable indexes, alerts, links to publications and relevant groups.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Site provides news on government plans for communications, the FCC's stance on critical issues and the impact of the 1996 telecommunications reform bill. Information covers a range of issues concerning interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. Available at this site are headlines, links to offices, reports on communications related issues and legislation.

Innovative Transport Technologies
Site provides information about "unconventional" transportation technologies.

International Data Group
Site provides links to 125 publications worldwide, descriptions of all 275 publications of the company, as well as descriptions of published books and sponsored expositions.

The Library of Congress
Many searchable databases on just about anything you can imagine.

NASA and the Mars Pathfinder Mission
This site really is beyond the scope of the category "Global and General", but it is very interesting and worth browsing.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame
This is the on-line version of our book about the National Inventors Hall of Fame. It allows you to do an electronic search on inventors in the hall of fame and their inventions. This also tells how to nominate people to the Hall of Fame and briefly reviews its origins.

Patents Advice Center
This site provides UK, US, European and World Patents on CD-ROM or paper copy. Any patent documents not held can be ordered on request. Their holdings are constantly updated as new material arrives. Trademark searches are also available.

Patent abstract retrieval
Enter a patent number here to get the abstract.

PharmInfoNet
A site with links to international pharmaceutical information including regulatory, association, educational and business resources.

PharmWeb
A structured pharmaceutical information server for pharmaceutical and health related organizations. PharmWeb provides a wide range of services such as web space, page design and authoring, graphics design, domain registration, and programming. The site provides industry specific yellow pages, links to publications, news, patient information, conferences, and industry organizations.

U.S. Copyright Office General Information and Publications
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries"

The Wacky Patent
The Wacky Patent of the Month is devoted to recognizing selected inventors and their remarkable and unconventional patented inventions.

The "Why" Files
Find out more about the science, math, and technology lurking behind the headline news. Another great project funded by the National Science Foundation.

World Wide Web Virtual Library Process Control List
List of process control information resources relevant to chemical and process engineering.

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