Innovation Challenge: Workshops & Resources

For more information about workshops on campus, please visit www.entreclub.org.

Resources: Print

Swanson, J. A. and Baird, M. L. (2003), Engineering Your Start-Up, 2nd ed., Belmont, CA: Professional Publications.
Christensen, C. M. and Raynor, M. E. (2003), The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Resources: Campus

"Selling Your Innovation" guidelines developed by Linda Plano, PhD, Associate Director of the Mass Tech Transfer Center.
UMass Amherst faculty and student researchers generate the discoveries, technologies and ideas that drive innovation. For a list of some of the resources and services available to campus innovators and entrepreneurs, click here.
If you are an entrepreneurial technologist and member of the UMass community, make sure to first familiarize yourself with the University's guidelines for protecting your discoveries.

Resources: Local

Resources: Web

Alliance of Angels
Bplans.com
Entreprenuer.com
eVenturing.com
www.techventures.org/resources/index.php
"From Invention to Innovation,” US Department of Energy. Available free of charge for downloadable from http://www.eere.energy.gov/inventions/docs/fromi2i.pdf
UC Berkeley also has a very informative resource page which includes workshop presentations from their own business plan competition. The following links and more are available for download.
Business Plan Basics (Robin Jones, Business Plan Workshop; January 18, 2006) (UC Berkeley)
How to Write a Successful Business Plan (Andrei Marinescu, Business Plan Workshop; January 18, 2006) (UC Berkeley)



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