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Innovation Hub Research Guide

Resource guide created by Innovation Fellow 2022 Judy Opdahl.

Innovation Hub Printing

Official Links to the Innovation Hub's Prototyping Space and Printers!

Prototyping in the Innovation Hub

Printing and Design Services 

See the Printers

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Software (List of popular software for 3D design, modeling, etc.)

Product Design Books (selected) (CSUSM Log-in required)

Streaming Media from CSUSM Library (CSUSM Log-in required)

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Own the Room

Many beauty and skincare brands have long ignored women of color, offering limited shade ranges and formulations. No more. Three entrepreneurs talk about creating new products for all types of skin, and targeting an untapped customer base. Release date 2019, 31 mins.

 

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How Lush took on the cosmetics industry

The company has been hand-making soap, bath bombs and body products for almost a quarter of a century but it is only now that ethical brands have become so much a part of the mainstream. The FT's Daniel Thomas profiles the cosmetics company.

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Imperfect Foods and Full Harvest CEOs on Markets for Surplus Food

Philip Behn, CEO of Imperfect Foods, and Christine Moseley, founder and CEO of Full Harvest, discuss how their companies create new markets for surplus and imperfect food with WSJ's Jesse Newman.

 

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The entrepreneur's guide to success : follow these tips.

Starting and running a business takes more than a good idea and the desire to not have a boss.

Commercial, 3D printing Groups, Makerspaces

Source for 3D Models

Try these headings

Subject headings are assigned to books/ebooks in the library's catalog.

"Subject heading" search finds titles on that subject. You can use the filters to sort the results by date, full text online, etc. Here are a few headings of potential interest to get you started

Subject Subheadings - you can add to your subject search after the names of states, regions, and main subjects. For instance: New Business Enterprises - Management; another example is small business - personnel management; and entrepreneurship - economic aspects 

  • economic aspects
  • finance
  • law and legislation
  • management
  • personnel management
  • planning

(Adapted from Duke University's Economics Research Guide)