Jon M. Garon - Books & Resources

The following weblinks have been compiled by the Small Business Administration, abridged and renumbered for convenience:

 

A. Office of Advocacy Resources

Office of Advocacy Resources
(www.sba.gov/advo/research )
The Small Business Economy: A Report to the President:
www.sba.gov/advo/research/sbe.html
Quarterly Indicators: The Economy and Small Business: www.sba.gov/advo/research/sbei.html
Small Firm Lending Studies:
www.sba.gov/advo/research/lending.html
State and Territory Small Business Economic Profiles:
www.sba.gov/advo/research/profiles
Regulatory Research:
www.sba.gov/advo/research/regulation.html
Research on Owner Demographics (women, minorities, veterans, etc.): www.sba.gov/advo/research/demographic.html
Advocacy Working Paper Series:
www.sba.gov/advo/research/wkpapers.html
Chronological List of Other Advocacy Research Reports:
www.sba.gov/advo/research/chron.html

B. Small Business Journals

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1042-2587
International Small Business Journal:
http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=306
Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13691066.asp
Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship:
http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/jame/section1.html
Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures:
http://whitman.syr.edu/people/institutes/journal/
Journal of Business Venturing: www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505723/description?navopenmenu=1
Journal of Small Business Management:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0047-2778
Small Business Economics:
www.kluweronline.com/issn/0921-898X/contents

 

C. Web-Based Resources

Center for Women’s Business Research:
www.nfwbo.org
Kauffman Entrepreneurial Research:
www.kauffman.org
Kauffman-RAND Center for Study of Small Business and Regulation:
www.rand.org/icj/centers/small_business
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series:
www.nber.org/papers
National Women’s Business Council:
www.nwbc.gov
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Dep’t:
www.oecd.org
Research Papers in Economics:
http://econpapers.repec.org
Social Science Research Network:
www.ssrn.com
The World Bank’s Doing Business Project:
www.doingbusiness.org

 

D. Data Sources

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census

1997 Economic Census: www.census.gov/epcd/www/econ97.html

2002 Economic Census (Survey of Business Owners): www.census.gov/econ/census02/

American FactFinder: http://factfinder.census.gov

Nonemployer Statistics: www.census.gov/epcd/nonemployer/

Center for Economic Studies (CES) Data and Working Papers
www.ces.census.gov. CES Data is available at Research Data Centers for approved research proposals.

Statistics of U.S. Businesses (partially funded by Advocacy): www.census.gov/csd/susb/susb.htm

County Business Patterns: http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html

Survey of Income and Program Participation: www.sipp.census.gov/sipp/sipphome.htm

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Business Employment Dynamics: www.bls.gov/bdm/home.htm

Current Population Survey: http://www.bls.gov/cps/home.htm and http://ferret.bls.census.gov/cgi-bin/ferret

Federal Reserve Board

Federal Reserve Bulletin: www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/default.htm

Survey of Small Business Finances: www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss3/nssbftoc.htm

Survey of Consumer Finances: www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html

Senior Loan Officer Survey on Bank Lending Practices: www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/SnLoanSurvey

Internal Revenue Service - Statistics of Income Division: www.irs.gov/taxstats

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation - Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: www.kauffman.org

National Federation of Independent Business - Small Business Economic Trends:www.nfib.com

Small Business Polls: www.nfib.com

Other Longitudinal Databases

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor:www.gemconsortium.org

Panel Study on Entrepreneurial Dynamics http://app1.sba.gov/faqs/projects.isr.umich.edu/psed/index.cfm

Intellectual Property Websites

United States Patent and Trademark Office

http://www.uspto.gov 

United States Copyright Office

http://www.copyright.gov  

WIPO-World Intellectual Property Organization
www.WIPO.Int

Intellectual Property Mall (Franklin Pierce Law Center)
www.ipmall.fplc.edu

Professor Tom Field’s The Practical and Legal Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/ipbasics.htm

American Intellectual Property Law Association
www.aipla.org

LII / Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School
www.law.cornell.edu/topical.html

IPO - Intellectual Property Owners Association
www.ipo.org

Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice.
www.cybercrime.gov

National Academies' Intellectual Property

Http://ip.nationalacademies.org

CataLaw : Intellectual Property Law, The catalog of catalogs of law.  http://www.catalaw.com/topics/IP.shtml

Electronic Freedom Forum www.eff.org

BitLaw www.bitlaw.com

 

Business Planning Websites and Other Resources

 

Sample Business Plans

http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm

Nolo.com www.nolo.com 

CCH Business Owner's Toolkit

www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/tools.asp 

BBB Alerts & News

www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=605 

GreatIdeaGear

http://www.greatideagear.com 

Center for Business Planning

http://www.businessplans.org 

SBA - Small Business Startup Guide

SBA - Small Business Startup Guide, starting your business.

www.sba.gov/starting_business/startup/guide.html 

StartupJournal.com www.startupjournal.com 

Entrepreneur's SmallBizBooks.com 

www.entrepreneur.com 

Businessnation

www.businessnation.com 

IRS Start-Up Business Information

www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99336,00.html 

Finance Start-Up

www.business.gov/phases/launching/finance_startup/index.html 

The Small Business Start-Up Guide   

www.isquare.com/guide.cfm 

Starting a SmallBusiness for an Entrepreneur - Bplans.com

www.bplans.com/st  

State of Illinois Business Portal - Business Start-Up Guides

business.illinois.gov/startup.cfm   

Missouri Small Business Start-Up Kit, 

www.missouribusiness.net/smallbiz 

State of Colorado - Office of Economic Development 

www.state.co.us/oed/guide 

StartupNation www.startupnation.com 

Business 2.0: Bulletproof Startup

money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/startups/index.html

Inc.com Starting a Business

www.inc.com/guides/start_biz 

Sources of Secondary Research – from the SBA 

http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/marketing/research.html 

ASAE Directory of Associations Online

http://info.asaenet.org/gateway/OnlineAssocSlist.html 

Ask a Librarian - U.S. Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib 

Bureau of Labor Statistics http://stats.bls.gov 

Business Research Lab

http://www.busreslab.com/evaluhd.htm 

Center for Business Women's Research

http://www.nfwbo.org/Research/index.htm 

Economic Statistics & Research

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research 

Fedstats.gov http://www.fedstats.gov 

Internet Public Library htttp://www.ipl.org 

Population & Demography Resources

http://www.pstc.brown.edu/resources_links/refresources.html

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