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Additional Resources

Technology Translation Readiness Assessment Tool (TM)   PDF                          

National Council on the Aging   https://www.ncoa.org/                           

National Institute on Aging   https://www.nia.nih.gov/                           

Abledata   http://abledata.com/                

LeadingAge   http://www.leadingage.org/                                            

Sheridan Surgical Inc.
4513 Bailey Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14224
716-836-8780
www.sheridansurgical.com

Complete Home Care
60 Broad Street
Tonawanda, NY 14150
716-694-2554
www.completehomecare.com

Bensons Surgical Supply
2776 Delaware Ave.
Kenmore, NY 14217
716-332-0404
www.bensonsurgical.com

Center for Assistive Technology, Inc.
(Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, Wyoming)

TRAID Program
315 Alberta Drive, Suite 102
Amherst, NY 14226
Voice: (716) 836-1350
Voice/TTY: 800-628-2281
Website: www.cat.buffalo.edu/traid
Contact: Kim Naus ksnaus@buffalo.edu

Assistive Technology (TRAID) Program
Through a federal grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (ACL), the Justice Center administers the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities (TRAID) Program.  The TRAID Program’s mission is to coordinate statewide activities to increase access to and acquisition of assistive technology in the areas of education, employment, community living and information technology/telecommunications.

The Justice Center supports 12 Regional TRAID Centers (RTCs) which provide information, training, device demonstration, reuse, exchange, and loans. In addition it provides technical assistance and advocacy on how to obtain and use assistive technology services and devices.  A list of the centers located statewide can be found at https://www.justicecenter.ny.gov/services-supports/assistive-technology-traid/locations

The Justice Center also participates in a multi-state online equipment exchange collaborative.   Items can be found at lower than market price or for no cost on its website at www.getATstuff.com

 

Bibliography of Recommended Science, Technology,
Translation and Innovation Books

Armytage, W.H.G. (1961). A social history of engineering (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press Classics.

Atkinson, R.D., & Ezell, SJ. (2012). Innovation economics the race for global advantage. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Blank, S., Dorf B. (2012) The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. BookBaby.

Blank, S., Engel, J., Hornthal, J. (2014). Lean LaunchPad Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship Educators Guide. 6th ed. VentureWell. Retrieved July 2021, from https://venturewell.org/wp-content/uploads/Educators-Guide-Final-w-cover-PDF.pdf

Blank, Steve (12 July 2021). “Steve Blank: The Class That Changed How Entrepreneurship Is Taught.” Poets and Quants. Retrieved from https://poetsandquants.com/2021/07/12/steve-blank-the-class-that-changed-how-entrepreneurship-is-taught/

Block, F., & Keller, M.R. (2011). State of innovation, The U.S. government’s role in technology development. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press.

Branscomb, L.M., & Auerswald, P.E. (2001). Taking technical risks how innovators, executives and investors manage high-tech risks. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Branscomb, L.M., & Keller, J.H. (1998). Investing in innovation creating a research and innovation policy that works. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Cagan, J., & Vogel, C.M. (2001). Creating breakthrough products innovation from product planning to program approval. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR.

Cooper, R.G., & Edgett, S.J. (2009). Product innovation and technology strategy. Ontario, Canada: Product Development Institute.

Feyerabend, P. (2010). Against method. London, England: Verso.

Freeman, C., & Soete, L. (1997). The economics of industrial innovation (3rd ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Friedmann, J. (1987). Planning in the public domain: from knowledge to action. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Govindarajan, V., & Trimble, C. (2010). The other side of innovation solving the execution challenge. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.

Kahn, K.B., Castellion, G., & Griffin, A. (2005). The PDMA handbook of new product development (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Kelley, T., & Littman, J. (2001). The Art of Innovation, lessons in creativity from IDEO, America’s leading design firm. New York, NY: Doubleday.

Kraemer, S. (2006). Science & technology policy in the United States, open systems in action. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Lerner, J. (2009). Boulevard of broke dreams: why public efforts to boost entrepreneurship and venture capital have failed—and what to do about it. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Universal Press.

Mayer, M., Carpes, M., & Knoblich, R. (2014). The global politics of science and technology – vol. 2 perspectives, cases and methods. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.

OECD. (2007). Science, technology and innovation indicators in a changing world responding to policy needs. Paris, France: Author.

Pielke, R. (2007). The honest broker making sense of science in policy and politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Rosenbloom, R.S., & Spencer W.J. (1996). Engines of innovation U.S. industrial research at the end of an era. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Sarewitz, D. (1996). Frontiers of illusion science, technology and the politics of progress. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Savage, J.D. (1999). Funding science in America congress, universities, and the politics of the academic pork barrel. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Smil, V. (2005). Creating the twentieth century: technical innovations of 1867-1914 and their lasting impact. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press.

Speser, P.L. (2006). The art & science of technology transfer. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Tan, Y. (2011). Chinnovation: how Chinese innovators are changing the world. Singapore, Japan: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.

Utterback, J.M. (1996). Mastering the dynamics of innovation. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

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