BUSINESS PLANNING & TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

The data required to evaluate the benefits and advantages of communities as locations for a medical device company's facilities can be obtained from many different sources and in many different formats. A few examples of such sources are as follows.

• U.S. Census Bureau: www.census.gov.
• County and city government sites.

• Medtech Real Estate

  The local assessor's office.

• Large commercial brokerage Web sites.
• National Association of Realtors: www.realtor.org/research.
• RealQuest: www.realquest.com.
• Loopnet: www.loopnet.com.
• The Secretary of State's office.
• STAT-USA: www.stat-usa.gov.
• Consumer Price Index, U.S. Department of Labor: www.bls.gov/cpi.
• Geographic information systems such as Yahoo Maps, ArcView, Maptitude, and Google Earth.