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Patents, Inventors and Entrepreneurship: Patents, Inventing, Business Plans and Entrepreneurship (Books)

A guide designed for engineers

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Please note the books are only accessible to CSULB faculty and students.

General Books

Idea to Invention by Patricia Nolan-Brown
ISBN: 1306191912
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
The Better Mousetrap by Aaron E. Klein; Cynthia L. Klein
ISBN: 9780825300301
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Commercializing New Technologies by Vijay K. Jolly
ISBN: 0875847609
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
ISBN: 9781457193958

PATENTS

PATENT FUNDAMENTALS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS,
ISBN: 9780429099007
Patents and Strategic Inventing by Nicholas Nissing
ISBN: 9780071783866
Publication Date: 2012-09-26
Patent Searching by David Hunt (Editor); Long Nguyen (Editor); Matthew Rodgers (Editor); Landon IP Team Staff (Editor); David Hunt
ISBN: 9780471783794
Publication Date: 2007-02-02
Protecting Your Company`s Intellectual Property by Deborah E. Bouchoux
ISBN: 0814406017
Publication Date: 2001-04-05
Rembrandts in the Attic by Kevin G. Rivette; David Kline
Call Number: 4th Floor Stacks T211 .R58 2000
ISBN: 0585319456
Publication Date: 2000-01-01

Process of inventing

How Invention Begins by John H. Lienhard
ISBN: 019530599X
Publication Date: 2006-07-14
The Engines of Our Ingenuity by John H. Lienhard
ISBN: 0198031033
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Inventors at Work by Brett Stern
ISBN: 9781430245070
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Inventors at Work by A. Brown
Call Number: T39 .B86 1988
ISBN: 9781556151231
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
From Playgrounds to PlayStation by Carroll W. Pursell
Call Number: 2nd Floor Stacks GV1201.34 .P87 2015
ISBN: 9781421416502
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Mothers of Invention by Ethlie Ann Vare
Call Number: 4th Floor Stacks T36 .V36 1988
ISBN: 9780688064648
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
The One Device by Brian Merchant
Call Number: 4th Floor Stacks QA76.8.I64 M47 2017
ISBN: 9780316546164
Publication Date: 2017-06-20

Media on Inventing

Business Plans

Bankable Business Plans by Edward Rogoff; Jeff Bezos (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780979152238
Publication Date: 2007-10-15

Entrepreneurship

Technology, Business and the Market by John S. Sheldrake
ISBN: 9781409454564
Publication Date: 2014-06-28
Entrepreneurship the Disney Way by Mike Goldsby
ISBN: 9781138737549
Publication Date: 2018-11-07
Engineering Entrepreneurship from Idea to Business Plan by Paul Swamidass
ISBN: 1107261384
Publication Date: 2016-11-17
Green Engineering by Riadh Habash
ISBN: 9781351650700
Publication Date: 2017-11-07
Entrepreneurship by Stephen Roper
ISBN: 9780415695527
Publication Date: 2012-10-17
Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship by Jen-shih Lee
ISBN: 9814295620
Publication Date: 2010-05-31