You are here: ASTech > Engineering Library > Find > Bee489 Engineering Entrepeneurship, Management, and Ethics ***************************************** Sample Search on the Market Potential for Low Cost Fuel Cells Step One - Research an Idea Before writing a business plan, you need to do some research on a product or service that interests you. Consult some of these databases (also available through Find Databases of the Library Gateway. and Engineering and Management Libraries web pages).
Patent Searching - great source of ideas!
- MicroPatent- Easiest patent database to use. MicroPatent provides a database for searching and displaying the full text /images in PDF of US (1836+), EP (European Patents, 1988+), PCT (World Patents, 1978+), Great Britain (1979+), and DE (German, 1989+) patent records as well as the front page of JP (Japanese, 1976+) documents. US, EP, and DE are covered at first publication as applications and when granted. US patents are keyword searchable from 1836 to present. Restricted to current Cornell users. See Guide to Using MicroPatent.
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U.S. Patent & Trademark Office - Official USP TO site. From 1976+ Includes full text and/or page images. Drawings must be printed separately, need free Alternatiff TIFF viewer. Excellent print quality. Patents available prior to 1976 require searching by patent or class number only. Also includes trademark database. -
Factiva - full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal, thousands of newswires, newspapers, magazines, and trade journals covering the business world
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Bplans.com, a site which provides sample business plans. - Entrepreneur.com - web site of Entrepreneurship Magazine, ranks hottest business, top new franchises, and top picks.
Step Two - Find Recent Information and Articles on Companies Has this product been in the news? How successful is it? These database should help answer these questions.
- Business Source Premier - comprehensive business periodical database that includes scholarly journals and business periodicals covering such topics as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and much more.
- Factiva- full-text access to thousands of publications, including daily newspapers, magazines, journals, newswires, and trade publications. With its News Pages feature, Factiva allows you to browse the current day's front-page headlines from major U.S. newspapers and magazines.
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Hoover's Online - Use Hoover's Online to find product/brand name listings, competitors, officer names and salaries, product segmentation data, subsidiaries, and financial data, including access to annual reports and SEC filings. Hoover's Online also profiles industries and has an IPO watch calendar.
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Lexis Nexis Academic Universe - full-text articles from newspapers, business, and technical trade magazines, as well as wires, transcripts, and legal information. Lexis Nexis is the only campus source for the New York Times.
Step Three - Research the Industry, the Competition, Financials What is the state of the industry? Who are your company's competitors? Use these databases next. - CareerSearch is a database of over 1 million public and private U.S. companies. Search by industry (can be very specific, e.g. digital signature security systems) for a list of companies in the industry. This helps you find the competition.
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Gartner IntraWeb provides Gartner Group's market research reports for the information technology professional. Areas included in the service include research, analysis, consulting, measurement, decision evaluation, and product and vendor selection.
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InvestText Plus - has industry analyst reports, can also search by company.
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Global Market Information Database- Use Global Market Information Database to retrieve international market research data, including reports on specific products and industries. Global Market Information Database is the source for Euromonitor reports.
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Market Insight - includes Standard & Poor's industry overviews, stock reports, news stories, financial information
Step Four - Research the Engineering Literature - Compendex, 1884+) This comprehensive engineering database is the internet version of Engineering Index. The database adds about 220,000 abstracts yearly. Abstracts come from 2,600 engineering journals, conferences, and reports. All areas of engineering are covered. Approximately 22% of the database is conference literature, and 90% of the source docments are in English. It allows searching by subject term, keyword, author, and serial title, and can be restricted to certain document types and dates.
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INSPEC (1969+) INSPEC and IEEE Xplore are the most comprehensive databases for electrical engineering. INSPEC provides abstracts and indexing to scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology. See IEEE Xplore described below under full-text resources. Locate journals and conference papers in the Cornell Library Catalog at http://catalog.library.cornell.edu/ It provides holdings information to 7 million books and journal titles from 20 campus libraries. The Cornell Library Gateway is located at http://www.library.cornell.edu/ and is the library's home page, with information on hours, workshops, email addresses, and library web sites. Also located here are web forms for asking reference questions, requesting interlibrary loan, paging books from the annex,and submitting recalls and renewals. Contact the Reference Desk (engrref@cornell.edu; (607) 255-5935) if you don't find the information you need. updated by Jill Powell, 1/06 |
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