116 Resources for Building Tech-based Economies

From angel capital to university technology commercialization, there are myriad facets to technology-based economic development (TBED). The key to success lies in a solid understanding of your respective element of the field — from grasping the policy issues to developing effective programs and practices to implementing sound evaluation techniques.

While the SSTI Weekly Digest and SSTI's annual conferences are designed specifically to help you in your quest for economic growth through science and technology, we recognize there are additional tools you need for your job. So, we've compiled a catalog of 116 of the best titles currently available to assist the TBED community.

Descriptions in SSTI's 20-page publication catalog are grouped in 15 categories organized by specific TBED goal. For instance, there are five titles for growing a bio-based economy, 13 covering the local aspects of TBED, 12 for engaging higher education in your TBED quest, and eight for encouraging entrepreneurship. Books selected for inclusion are geared to varied audiences from practitioners and policy makers to academic researchers.

Proving yet again we take our nonprofit status seriously, nearly every book is listed below suggested retail price. To go a step further, prices for many titles continuing from last year's catalog — even our best sellers — are lower than last year. SSTI sponsors and affiliate organizations also get a 10 percent discount.

All 116 titles will be available for review and purchase at SSTI's annual conference next week. Take delivery during the event to avoid shipping costs! In addition, our bookstore inventory space is tiny, so limited supplies of nearly 30 titles (discontinued from last year to make room for the newest work in the field) have been marked down drastically for the conference.

A PDF version of the SSTI's Resources for Building Tech-based Economies can be downloaded at: http://www.ssti.org/Publications/Onlinepubs/catalog.pdf