Useful Links
Links for Entrepreneurs
Small
Business Association (SBA)
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation.
Center
for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships
The Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships builds the capacity
of families, service providers, researchers, teachers and communities to ensure
the health and well-being of children.
The Center for Biotechnology, Genomics, and Health Research
The CBGHR is committed to the production and development of timely programs
in basic biological and health research at UNCG and in the Greensboro community.
These programs utilize modern technology and approaches to address questions
in areas of traditional strength at the University.
Local (North Carolina)
Small
Business Technology Development Center
The North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC)
helps small business owners (and those interested in starting a business) meet
the challenges of today's business environment, manage that ever-changing world,
and plan for the future of their business.
Technology
Outreach at Nussbaum
Nussbaum
Center for Entrepreneurship
The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship, Inc. is a private non-profit corporation
whose mission is to enhance economic development in Greensboro and the surrounding
area.
Piedmont
Entrepreneurs Network (PEN)
PEN promotes the formation and success of entrepreneurial growth companies
in the Piedmont Triad by providing access to resource networks, talented people,
capital, and university research technology.
Triad
Entrepreneurial Initiative
Triad Entrepreneurial Initiative is a regional economic development coalition
focused on the creation of high-growth companies in the Piedmont Triad.
Business Plan Resources
Small
Business Technology Development Center
This center provides assistance and consulting.
Small
Business Association
Bplans.com
Bplans contains the largest single collection of free sample business plans
online.
The
business plan store
Business
Plan Software, Samples, and Strategy
Google
search references
Professional Organizations
The
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
AUTM is a nonprofit association with membership of more than 3,200 technology
managers and business executives who manage intellectual property-one of the
most active growth sectors of the U.S. economy. AUTM's members represent over
300 universities, research institutions, teaching hospitals and a similar number
of companies and government organizations. Their Mission is to promote, support
and enhance the global academic technology transfer profession through internal
and external education, training and communication.
National
Technology Transfer Center
The National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) is a full-service technology-management
center, providing access to federal technology information, knowledge management
and digital learning services, technology assessment, technology marketing,
assistance in finding strategic partners, and electronic-business development
services. The NTTC fosters relationships with federal clients, showcases technologies
and facilitates partnerships between clients and U.S. industry.
Delphion
Intellectual Asset Management
Search full-text patent specifications from the German national
collection. The collection includes applications, granted patents,
and utility models — with
main claims back to 1968. And German data from INPADOC is incorporated and
presented with the data from the German collection on the Delphion Integrated
View.
American
Intellecutal Property Law Association (AIPLA)
AIPLA represents a wide and diverse spectrum of individuals, companies and
institutions involved directly or indirectly in the practice of patent, trademark,
copyright and unfair competition law, as well as other fields of law affecting
intellectual property. Our members represent both owners and users of intellectual
property. The AIPLA was formed in 1897 in order to maintain a high standard
of professional ethics, to aid in the improvements in laws relating to intellectual
property and in their proper interpretation by the courts, and to provide legal
education to the public and to its members on intellectual property issues.
Patent Search Resources
IBM
Patent Server Home Page
This server lets you access over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office patent descriptions as well as the last ten years of images. The
first entries
date back to January 5, 1971. This site permits you to search, retrieve and
study over two million patents.
Community
of Science U.S. Patent Citation Database
The U.S. Patent Citation Database is a joint venture of the Community
of Science, Inc., a World Wide Web electronic publishing company, and
CHI Research, Inc.
This fully searchable bibliographic file contains all of the approximately
1.7 million U.S. patents issued since 1975. The database permits subscribers
to search all of the "front page" information about each patent: number, dates,
assignee, inventor, title, abstract, exemplary claims for recent years, and
U.S. and international classifications.
STO
Patent Search System
Source Translation & Optimization's (STO) Internet Patent Search
System (locate patent class using either the PTO Manual of Classification
or Index
to Classification; retrieve patent titles using class/subclass code; retrieve
patent abstracts using patent number).
US Government Sources
US
Copyright Office
US
Patent & Trademark Office
Patent Information and Law
U.S.
Patent Information
US
Copyright Law
US
Trademark Laws
International Patent Sources
European
Patent Office
Japanese
Patent Office
International
Intellectual Property Resources
Additional Useful Sites
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