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Small Business Development Center program : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority Enterprise and General Small Business Problems of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives with the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Small Business.Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority Enterprise, and General Small Business Problems.(CARDINAL)267493; United States.Congress.Senate.Committee on Small Business.(CARDINAL)277510;

Subjects: Small Business Development Center (U.S.); Small business;

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Looking at income-generating businesses for small nonprofit organizations / by Duncan, William A.(CARDINAL)163826; Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (U.S.)(CARDINAL)164312; Center for Community Change.(CARDINAL)144324;

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Subjects: Nonprofit organizations; Community organization.; Small business.;

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The inventor's bible : how to market and license your brilliant ideas / by Docie, Ronald Louis.(CARDINAL)657097;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Commercialization -- Timing is (almost) everything -- Market and industry research -- Time to pick the lineup -- The plan comes together -- Brass tacks -- Victory through teamwork -- The end of the rainbow -- The future for inventor's agents -- Appendices. Appendix A. General information concerning patents ; Appendix B. Patent and trademark resource centers ; Appendix C. Invention evaluation criteria ; Appendix D. Risk/Reward ratio chart ; Appendix E. Simplified steps : a quick-reference flow chart of the invention commercialization process ; Appendix F. Disclosure agreement -- Resources. Government contacts ; Government programs ; Patent searching and patenting ; Research resources ; Small business resources ; Inventor resources ; Crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and open innovation -- Glossary -- Patent and new product marketing workbook."The definitive guide for inventors, newly updated with the latest patenting laws, information on crowdfunding, and online resources. The path to success is clearer than it's ever been! Thanks to experienced inventor Ronald Docie, the process of commercializing your invention and receiving royalties is no longer complicated. The Inventor's Bible is an in-depth how-to manual for both beginners and skilled entrepreneurs alike that helps you develop a realistic, workable plan, research your market, target potential business partners, and strike a good deal for your inventions. It tackles vital concerns, such as: What is my invention worth? What steps should I take first? Is free government help available? Who can I trust, and how can I keep from getting ripped off? Revised to reflect recent changes and innovations, this fourth edition includes: Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing Open Innovation Free Patenting Help New U.S. Patent Laws America Invents Act Freedom to Use Law Online Help for Inventors With The Inventor's Bible, your dream can become the world's next great invention"--

Subjects: New products; Inventions; Patents;

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Travel demand and land use, 2006. by National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.Annual Meeting(85th :2006 :Washington, D.C.)(CARDINAL)335539;

Includes bibliographical references.Exploratory analysis of children's travel patterns / Noreen C. McDonald -- Development of transport mode choice model by using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system / Katia Andrade, Kenetsu Uchida, and Seiichi Kagaya -- Sequential logit dynamic travel demand model and its transferability / Haoqiang Fu, Chester G. Wilmot, and Earl J. Baker -- Use of mixed revealed-preference and stated-preference models with nonlinear effects in forecasting / Elisabetta Cherchi and Juan de Dios Ortúzar -- Application of travel demand microsimulation model for equity analysis / Joe Castiglione ... [et al.] -- Dynamics and variability in within-day mode choice decisions : role of state dependence, habit persistence, and unobserved heterogeneity / Gitakrishnan Ramadurai and Karthik K. Srinivasan -- Fitting distributions to random parameters / Yaron Hollander -- Endogeneity in residential location choice models / Cristian Angelo Guevara and Moshe Ben-Akiva -- Nonlinearity of response to level-of-service variables in travel mode choice models / Abdul Rawoof Pinjari and Chandra Bhat -- Simulating land use development through a stochastic allocation procedure in Johannesburg, South Africa / Christoffel J. Venter, Theuns Lamprecht, and William Badenhorst -- Bilevel negotiation protocol for multiagent simulation of housing transactions and market clearing processes / Oswald Devisch ... [et al.] -- Location choice vis-à-vis transportation : apartment dwellers / Michelle Bina, Valdemar Warburg, and Kara M. Kockelman -- Nonstationary spatial interpolation method for urban model development / Varameth Vichiensan ... [et al.] -- Tracking land cover change in mixed logit model : recognizing temporal and spatial effects / Xiaokun Wang and Kara M. Kockelman -- Effects of land use characteristics on residence and employment location and travel behavior of urban adult workers / João de Abreu e Silva, Thomas F. Gibb, and Konstandinos G. Goulias -- Infrastructure and firm dynamics : calibration of microsimulation model for firms in the Netherlands / Michiel de Bok and Michiel C.J. Bliemer -- Use of walk opportunities index to quantify local accessibility / J. Richard Kuzmyak, Charles Baber, and David Savory -- Probit-type reliability-based transit network assignment / Liu Yang and William H.K. Lam -- Parking at mixed-use centers in small cities / Wesley E. Marshall and Norman W. Garrick -- Manifestations of development goals in transit-oriented projects / Robert T. Dunphy and Douglas R. Porter -- Influence of transportation access on individual firm location decisions / Felipe Targa, Kelly J. Clifton, and Hani S. Mahmassani -- Conceptual model of location of small office firms / Ilan Elgar and Eric J. Miller -- Relationship between transport accessibility and land value : local model approach with geographically weighted regression / Hongbo Du and Corinne Mulley -- Systems-level approach to sustainable urban arterial revitalization : case study of San Pablo Avenue, San Francisco Bay area, California / Christopher R. Cherry ... [et al.] -- Application of activity chaining model incorporating a time use problem to network demand analysis / Hyunmyung Kim, Jun-Seok Oh, and R. Jayakrishnan -- Finding shortest paths under time-bandwidth constraints by using elliptical minimal search area / Lee D. Han, Hui Wang, and William F. Mackey, Jr. -- Influence of land use on tour complexity : a Dutch case / Kees Maat and Harry Timmermans -- Social commitments and activity-travel scheduling decisions / Astrid Kemperman, Theo Arentze, and Harry Timmermans -- Meeting appointment and waiting behavior with mobile communications / Nobuaki Ohmori, Takayuki Hirano, and Noboru Harata -- Impact of mobile phones on travel : empirical analysis of activity chaining, ridesharing, and virtual shopping / Karthik K. Srinivasan and P.N. Raghavender -- Employer expectations for commuting and business-related travel in an environment rich in information and communication technologies / Peter Bonsall and Jeremy Shires -- Wireless Internet on trains : impacts on performance of business travelers / Min Zhang ... [et al.] -- Impact of e-economy on traffic and traffic-related indicators in urban areas / Gerard de Jong ... [et al.].

Subjects: Technical reports.; Conference papers and proceedings.; Transportation; Land use; Trip generation; Choice of transportation;

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Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century / by Braudel, Fernand.(CARDINAL)150063;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Black Africa: Collaborator As Well As Victim?: -- Western half of Africa -- Black Africa: isolated yet accessible -- From the coast to the interior -- Three-cornered traffic and its terms of trade -- End of the slave trade -- Russian World-Economy: A World Apart: -- Return of the Russian economy to quasi-autonomy -- Strong state -- Yoke of serfdom in Russia: an ever-increasing burden -- Market and rural society -- Small-town society -- World-economy-but what kind of world-economy? -- Invention of Siberia -- Inferiorities and weaknesses -- Price of European intrusion -- Turkish Empire: -- Foundations of a world-economy -- Scale of European penetration of the Turkish Empire -- Land of caravans -- Turkish waters: a well-protected sector -- Merchants serving the Ottoman Empire -- Economic decadence, political decadence -- Far East: Greatest Of All The World-Economies: -- Fourth world-economy -- India's self-inflicted conquest -- Gold and silver, strength or weakness? -- European assault force: merchants with a difference -- Trading posts, factories, supercargoes -- How to get at the real history of the Far East? -- Villages of India -- Artisans and industry -- National market -- Significance of the Mogul Empire -- Political and non-political reasons for the fall of the Mogul Empire -- India's decline in the nineteenth century -- India and china: caught in a super-world-economy -- Malacca's hour of glory -- New centers of the Far East -- Is Any Conclusion Possible?: -- Industrial Revolution And Growth: -- Some Relevant Comparisons: -- Revolution: a complicated and ambiguous term -- Downstream from the industrial revolution: the under-developed countries -- Upstream from the English industrial revolution: revolutions that came to nothing -- Alexandrian Egypt -- Earliest industrial revolution in Europe: horses and mills, from the eleventh to the thirteenth century -- Age of Agricola and Leonardo da Vinci: a revolution in embryo -- John U Nef and the first British industrial revolution 1560-1640 -- Industrial Revolution In Britain, Sector By Sector: -- British agriculture, a crucial factor -- Demographic revival -- Technology, a necessary but probably not sufficient condition -- Why the cotton revolution should not be underestimated -- Victory in long-distance trade -- Spread of inland transport -- Mills of history grind exceedingly slow -- Beyond The Industrial Revolution: -- Types of growth -- How can growth be explained? -- Growth and the division of labor -- Division of labor: the end of the road for the putting-out system -- Industrialists -- British economy and society by sector -- Division of labor and the geography of Britain -- Finance and capitalism -- How important was the short-term economic climate? -- Material progress and living standards -- By Way Of Conclusion: Past And Present: -- Capitalism and the long-term -- Capitalism and the social context -- Can capitalism survive? -- Conclusion to end conclusions: capitalism and the market economy -- Notes -- Index.Volume 3: -- Foreword -- Divisions Of Space And Time In Europe: -- Economies In Space: The World-Economies: -- World-economies -- There have always been world-economies -- Some ground rules -- Rule One: Boundaries change only slowly -- Rule Two: Dominant capitalist city always lies at the center -- Rule Two (continued): Cities take it in turns to lead -- Rule Two (continued): Power and influence of cities may vary -- Rule Three: There is always a hierarchy of zones within a world-economy -- Rule Three (continued): Von Thunen's zones -- Rule Three (continued): Spatial arrangement of the world-economy -- Rule Three (continued): Do neutral zones exist? -- Rule Three (continued): Do neutral zone exist? -- Rule Three (continued): Envelope and infrastructure -- World-Economy: An Order Among Other Orders: -- Economic order and the international division of labor -- State: political power and economic power -- Empire and world-economy -- War and the zones of the world-economy -- Societies and world-economy -- Cultural order World-economy model is certainly a valid one -- World-Economy And Divisions Of Time: -- Rhythms of the 'conjuncture -- Fluctuations across a spatial sounding-broad -- Secular trend -- Explanatory chronology of the world economies -- Kondratieff cycles and the secular trend -- Can the long-term conjuncture be explained? -- Past and present -- City-Centred Economies Of The European Past: Before And After Venice: -- First European World-Economy: -- European expansion from the eleventh century -- World-economy and bi-polarity -- Northern complex: the heyday of Bruges -- Northern complex: the rise of the Hansa -- Other pole of attraction: the Italian cities -- Interlude: the Champagne fairs -- France's lost opportunity -- Belated Rise Of Venice: -- Genoa versus Venice -- Venice reigns supreme -- World-economy centred on Venice -- Venice's responsibility -- Galere da mercato -- Venetian model of capitalism -- Labor in Venice -- Hand industry become Venice's major activity? -- Turkish peril -- Unexpected Rise Of Portugal; Or From Venice To Antwerp: -- Traditional explanation -- New interpretations -- Antwerp: a world capital created by outside agency -- Stages in Antwerp's career -- Antwerp's first experience of expansion and disappointment -- Antwerp's second boom and slump -- Antwerp's industrial phase -- Originality of Antwerp -- Putting The Record Straight: The Age Of The Genoese: -- Screen of barren mountains -- Operating by remote control -- Balancing act -- Genoa's discreet rule over Europe -- Reasons for the Genoese success -- Genoese withdrawal -- Genoa survives -- Back to the world-economy -- City-Centred Economies Of The European Past: Amsterdam: -- United Provinces: The Economy Begins At Home: -- Strip of land, lacking in natural wealth -- Agricultural achievement -- High-voltage urban economy -- Amsterdam -- Variegated population -- Fisheries from the first -- Dutch fleet -- Can the United Provinces be called a 'state' -- Internal structures: little change -- Taxing the poor -- United Provinces and the outside world -- When business was king -- Traders To Europe, Traders to the World: -- Seeds of success hand all been sown by 1585 -- Rest of Europe and the Mediterranean -- Dutch versus the Portuguese, or the art of the takeover bid -- Coherence of trade within the Dutch Empire -- Success In Asia, Lack Of Success In America: -- Struggle and success -- Rise and fall of the VOC -- Why the collapse in the eighteenth century? -- Failure in the New World: the limits of Dutch success -- World-Domination And Capitalism: -- What was good for the entrepot trade was good for Amsterdam -- Commodities and credit -- Commission trade -- Acceptance trade -- Loans mania or the perversion of capital -- Change of perspective: away from Amsterdam -- Baltic countries -- France versus Holland: an unequal struggle -- England and Holland -- Outside Europe: the East Indies -- Is it possible to generalize? -- On The Decline Of Amsterdam: -- Crises of 1763, 1772-1773, 1780-1783 -- Batavian revolution -- National Markets: -- Elements And Compounds: -- Hierarchy of units -- Provincial units and markets -- Nation-state, yes-but the national market? -- Internal customs barriers -- Against a priori definitions -- Territorial economy and the city-centered economy -- Weights And Measures: -- Three variables, three sets of dimensions -- Three ambiguous concepts -- Orders of magnitude and correlations -- National debt and GNP -- Some other equations -- From consumption to GNP -- Frank Spooner's calculations -- Visible continuities -- Frances: A Victim Of Her Size: -- Diversity and unity -- Natural and artificial links -- Primacy of Politics -- Was France simply too big? -- Paris plus Lyon, Lyon plus Paris -- Paris takes the crown -- Plea for a differential history -- For and against the Rouen-Geneva line -- Border zones, coastal and continental -- Towns of the other France -- French interior -- Interior colonized by the periphery -- England's Trading Supremacy: -- How England become an island -- Pound sterling -- London creates the national market and is created by it -- How England became Great Britain -- England's greatness and the national debt -- From the treaty of Versailles (1783) to the Eden Treaty (1786) -- Statistics: a contribution but not a solution -- For And Against Europe: The Rest Of The World: -- Americas; Playing For The Highest Stakes Of All: -- America's wide-open spaces: hostile but promising -- Regional or national markets -- Patterns of slavery -- When the colonies worked for Europe -- When the colonies worked against Europe -- Conflict over industry -- English colonies choose liberty -- Competition and rivalry in trade -- Exploitation of America by Spain and Portugal -- Spanish America reconsidered -- Spanish Empire taken in hand again -- Treasure of treasures -- Neither feudalism nor capitalism?

Subjects: Civilization, Modern; Economic history.; Social history.;

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