Sustainability & Philosophy
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben. This book elucidates successful examples around the globe of a new paradigm of economics that values people, community, and the environment.
http://www.billmckibben.com/deep-economy.html
Interview with McKibben on creating the durable future:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006451.html
Paul Hawkin, Environmental Entrepreneur. Landmark writings and resources on green economics and environmental sustainability in business.
http://www.paulhawken.com/
Interview and article with Paul Hawkin: The Green Quotient (
pdf) and Natural Capitalism (
pdf)
Bill Vitek (Philosopher at Clarkson University): These Revolutionary Times http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/newsfacts/fact080722.html
Summary: This short essay explains why we need to examine our deeply held beliefs about how we live and what is important, moves into why sustainability (and technology alone) isn’t enough to really solve our problems, and provides some target goals and actions for how we can get there (some big action steps to generate innovative thinking!).
Richard York (Sociologist at U of Oregon): Ecological Paradoxes: William Stanley Jevons and the Paperless Office. http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her132/york.pdf
This is a short insightful article that examines why technological promises usually don’t solve our environmental problems (and often make them worse)…sort of a primer for why we need to think critically about how we solve one problem such that we don’t create new ones in the process. Very important for technology innovations!
The Precautionary Principle: http://www.sehn.org/ppfaqs.html looking at how science and human decision making needs an ethical context.
Aldo Leopold’s classic essay from Sand County Almanac: The Land Ethic
http://neohasid.org/stoptheflood/the_land_ethic/ This is a distilled summarized version of the original text, but hits the main ideas that made ecology into both a science and brought ethical considerations of the land, water, air, animals, plants into modern thought. This is the full text: http://neohasid.org/pdf/landethic.pdf seven pages.
Patent & Intellectural Property Resources
SEI Manual on Intellectual Property Disclosures
This is an invaluable guide to each step teams must take to properly disclose and protect their intellectual property (original product or idea). While the manual is written specifically for EPICS teams, the steps described also apply to teams in the Environmental I2P competition.
http://innovate.ecn.purdue.edu/documents/Intellectual_Property_Disclosure_Phases.pdf
The Engineering Library has links to information regarding patents and patent searches.
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/engr/resources/patentlinks.html
Search Engine Presentation by John Calvert, US Patent Office.
mms://video.dis.purdue.edu/bns/technology/IT226_080103.wmv [paste this URL into your browser - it will launch windows media player]
Copyright Resources
The
U.S. Copyright Office is a good place to start.
http://www.copyright.gov/
Creative Commons Licensing
This is a unique alternative to standard copyright and patent. If you are interested in open share type services or product dissemination you should check out the worldwide alternative called Creative Commons. You can choose various levels of protection and use parameters.
http://creativecommons.org/
Business Planning
Business Planner tutorial and process - Purdue University
This is a web based planning tool that allows you to quickly move through a draft business plan proposal. It generates basic feasibility and financial outcomes based on your inputs. In addition it asks guiding questions to determine your level of confidence and commitment to the business idea.
https://www.agecon.purdue.edu/planner/
General Entrepreneurship Resources Listing - from Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.
Purdue also offers a
certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation involving several new courses.
Business Information Resources - Krannert Library
The Krannert library has many resources which provide access to demographic, business trend, and market research data. General information can be found at:
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/mel/
A user-friendly map of business information resources for entrepreneurs can be found at
www.lib.purdue.edu/mel/drawing.htm
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship Initiative (SEI) I2P™ Web site
This is the web site for the Burton D. Morgan Center program from which this competition is modeled:
http://innovate.ecn.purdue.edu/index.php
University of Texas at Austin Idea to Product® Website:
This website from UT Austin, which founded the I2P™ competition, contains links to competition resources and examples of team presentations.
http://www.ideatoproduct.org/
