Health Entrepreneurship
Here are some selected resources in the health sciences. For more information, please check out the Woodward Library site for more research guides and databases for your recommended topic.
- ClinicalKey This link opens in a new windowClinicalKey provides access to FirstConsult, top journals, best-selling medical and surgical books, thousands of medical videos, millions of images, and much more content across 12 distinct content types.
- Elsevier ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowFull text electronic journals covering the physical sciences, applied sciences, life sciences, social sciences, business & economics. Also includes reference works, book series, and handbooks.
- EMBASE (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowInternational (but European-focused) biomedical database with strengths in drug-related and rehabilitation sciences subjects.
- MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowPremier international index to biomedical research covering more than 5000 journals and indexing over 22 million citations from 1946 to present.
- PubMed (1946 - present) This link opens in a new windowPremier database containing over 30 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a focus on biomedicine. Freely available and includes MEDLINE. This link goes to the version with UBC elink.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
- CB Insights This link opens in a new windowThe CB Insights tech market intelligence platform analyzes millions of data points on venture capital, startups, patents, partnerships and news mentions to predict emerging technologies and trends.
- BCC Research This link opens in a new windowProvides market analysis and forecasting on a wide range of major emerging technological and scientific developments in the industrial, pharmaceutical and high technology sectors worldwide.
- MarketResearch.com Academic This link opens in a new windowMarket research reports for consumer products, demographics, food, beverage, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and more. Includes reports from various sources, including Freedonia Focus, Packaged Facts and Kalorama.
- Health and Social Services Industry GuidesA collection of guides specially curated by the Small Business Accelerator
When searching in business article databases, the words you use have a direct impact on the results you retrieve. Try a few different searches using different combinations of search words to vary your results.
Refer to our Research Tips guide for for examples of how to search article databases effectively, like using single words or short phrases.
Suggested search words/phrases:
"health entrepreneurship" | "health entrepreneur" | "health enterprise" | "health marketing" | "health innovation"
- Medical entrepreneurism: the current opportunity in AmericaDiscusses both the current climate for entrepreneurial activity in the fields of biotechnology, health care services, and medical devices as well as key ideas in the process of successful innovation.
- Entrepreneurship in Health Education and Health Promotion: Five Cardinal RulesThis article weaves theory and practical application into a primer on entrepreneurial applications in Health Entrepreneurship/Health Promotion.
- Teaching Public Health Professionals Entrepreneurship: An Integrated Approach.This paper represents an attempt to bring entrepreneurial education among public health professionals closer to the core of healthcare.
Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Here are some selected resources in the health sciences. For more information, please check out the Sustainability Research Guide by Woodward Library for resources and databases for your recommended topic.
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowApproximately 300,000 articles on green issues, including green building, global warming, etc.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowEntries from over 300 Oxford reference works, including A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation, Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, Encyclopedia of Global Change, and the Oxford Companion to Global Change.
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowA complete online collection of journals, books, and statistical series and databases published by the OECD since 1998. Use for: full-text access to books, journals and statistics from the OECD.
- Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (AESD) This link opens in a new windowThe Agricultural & Environmental Science database (AESD) facilitates in-depth research and comprehensive literature reviews across the earth, atmospheric & aquatic sciences. Includes Agricola.
For more information, please check out the Sustainable Business Research Guide for resources and databases for your recommended topic.
- CB Insights This link opens in a new windowThe CB Insights tech market intelligence platform analyzes millions of data points on venture capital, startups, patents, partnerships and news mentions to predict emerging technologies and trends.
- BCC Research This link opens in a new windowProvides market analysis and forecasting on a wide range of major emerging technological and scientific developments in the industrial, pharmaceutical and high technology sectors worldwide.
- Passport GMID This link opens in a new windowIn addition to international statistical and market research reports for over 200 countries, it also includes an Ethics add on for sustainability topics.
When searching in business article databases, the words you use have a direct impact on the results you retrieve. Try a few different searches using different combinations of search words to vary your results.
Refer to our Research Tips guide for for examples of how to search article databases effectively, like using single words or short phrases.
Suggested search words/phrases:
"sustainable entrepreneurship" | "sustainability entrepreneur" | "sustainable enterprise" | "sustainability marketing" | "sustainability innovation"
Browse recent issues of journals to keep up to date on recent news, trends or issues relating to sustainable entrepreneurship:
- Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing"Sauder S3i is focused on leveraging business tools to advance social innovation and sustainability, through research, incubation, and application..The core research themes at Sauder S3i are building the low carbon economy, social innovation, and economic development with First Nations.
- World Resources InstituteWRI produces maps, charts, data sets, infographics, and other visual resources to turn information into action.
- Network for Business SustainabilityCanadian non-profit which provides free, evidence-based research (conducted by academics) on sustainability priorities identified by their Leadership Council. Topics include business sustainability, climate change, consumerism, environmental policy, organizational culture, stakeholder engagement and supply chains.
- Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR)Non-profit organization that provides support to members in corporate social responsibility. Website includes a blog, newsletter, jobs, conferences and events, and publications
Social Entrepreneurship
When searching in business article databases, the words you use have a direct impact on the results you retrieve. Try a few different searches using different combinations of search words to vary your results.
Refer to our Research Tips guide for for examples of how to search article databases effectively, like using single words or short phrases.
Suggested search words/phrases:
"social entrepreneurship" | "social entrepreneur" | "social enterprise" | "social marketing" | "social innovation" | "nonprofit organizations" | "social impact" | "social change"
Here are some sample articles that may arise out of your research:
Browse recent issues of journals to keep up to date on recent news, trends or issues relating to social entrepreneurship:
Social Entrepreneurship by ISBN: 9780199283873Publication Date: 2006-12-28
Social Entrepreneurship by ISBN: 9781847422965Publication Date: 2010-06-01
Engineering or Tech Entrepreneurship
Here are some selected resources in engineering and technology. For more information, please check out the Woodward Library site for more research guides and databases for your recommended topic.
- Compendex Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowPremier engineering database, covering the core literature of the engineering field, including related specialties and technologies.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new windowThe IEL database provides fulltext access to more than 140 technical journals, over 1000 standards, and approximately 900 annual conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new windowTechnology-related journals, magazines, newsletters and conference proceedings. Use for: Technology topics such as e-commerce, supply chain management, human computer interfaces, RFID, etc.
- BCC Research This link opens in a new windowProvides market analysis and forecasting on a wide range of major emerging technological and scientific developments in the industrial, pharmaceutical and high technology sectors worldwide.
- CB Insights This link opens in a new windowThe CB Insights tech market intelligence platform analyzes millions of data points on venture capital, startups, patents, partnerships and news mentions to predict emerging technologies and trends.
- Gartner This link opens in a new windowGartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company.
- Technology & Media Industry GuidesA collection of guides specially curated by the Small Business Accelerator
When searching in business article databases, the words you use have a direct impact on the results you retrieve. Try a few different searches using different combinations of search words to vary your results.
Refer to our Research Tips guide for for examples of how to search article databases effectively, like using single words or short phrases.
Suggested search words/phrases:
"tech entrepreneurship" | "tech entrepreneur" | "tech enterprise" | "tech innovation"
"engineering entrepreneurship" | "engineer entrepreneur" | "engineer enterprise" | "engineering innovation"
- Tech.Entrepreneurship@UBCtech.entrepreneurship@UBC leverages the expertise of the Sauder School of Business and entrepreneurship@UBC to offer you support. A seasoned team of domain-specific experts can provide real-world, hands-on guidance in a wide range of programs to help you move from innovative concept to successful venture.
- Human Capital and Search–Based Discovery: A Study of High–Tech EntrepreneurshipThis study examines the knowledge and experience of new technology entrepreneurs who had been searching for an opportunity compared to those who identified opportunities without searching.
- Journal of engineering entrepreneurship (JEEN)A peer-reviewed international journal, JEEN aims to open an essential window of opportunity for an intellectual dialog between engineering entrepreneurship educators, researchers, and practitioners.
- Open Innovation to Business ModelThe aim of this article is to make a ‘new’ business model framework in a knowledge-based economy