Resources
Maps to the Carlson School of Management and the Mechanical Engineering buildings.
UMN Library resources: Business, Engineering
Medical device research:
Government clinical trials: www.clinicaltrials.gov
FDA adverse event database: www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfmaude/search.cfm
Product development case study, "Good Grips" kitchen products.
Zoomerang.com - A site web site that allows you to custom design a survey, issue you a URL and post results, all for free. Very useful for market research or product concept testing.
Sample income and expense statements can be found at http://www.medtronic.com/investors/annual-reports/
and http://investors.target.com/
Link to a Business Week article titled "The Litigation Machine".
http://www.bitlaw.com - A web site on intellectual property developed by our guest speakers.
http://www.uspto.gov - US Trademarks
http://www.icann.org - ICANN
http://www.whois.sc - Domain Wildcard Search
The Product Development Institute
The Lemelson-MIT Invention Dimension
The Product Development and Management Association