Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adult and retirement communities -- Agile software -- AIDS testing, treatment, and services -- Airless tires -- Alternative adult education -- Alternative energy -- Alternative vehicle fuels -- Anti-aging products and services -- Artificial intelligence -- Athleisure -- Autonomous vehicles -- Biometrics -- Bioremediation -- Boutique wineries -- Business continuity and disaster recovery planning -- Call centers -- Charter schools -- Children's educational franchies -- Competitive intelligence -- Computer network support services -- Computer security -- Concierge services : corporate and personal -- Credit card issuing -- Crowdsourcing -- Cyber forensics -- Data mining -- Digital audio entertainment -- Digital imaging -- Digital mapping -- Distance learning -- Drones -- E-commerce : business to business -- E-commerce : consumer products -- E-commerce : online auctions -- E-commerce : online brokerages -- E-commerce : online grocery shopping -- E-commerce : online music and film distribution -- Electric vehicles -- Electronic publishing -- Encryption systems and digital certificates -- Entrepreneurial training and advisory services -- Environmental remediation -- Extreme sports -- Fantasy sports -- Fertility medicine : products and services -- Fiber optics -- Financial planning services -- Food trailers -- Fuel cells -- Gambling resorts and casinos -- Game design and development -- Genealogy products and services -- Genetic engineering -- Geographic information systems -- Government innovation units -- Green construction -- Green retailing -- Handheld computing devices -- Health spas -- High-frequency trading -- High-speed internet services -- Holography -- Home health care services -- Home medical equipment -- Home networking equipment -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Information management systems -- Intelligent personal assistants -- IT consulting -- Knowledge management software and services -- Lasers and laser applications -- Life coaching -- Logistics outsourcing services -- Luxury theaters -- Medical self-testing products -- Medical tourism -- Micro markets -- Micromachines and nanotechnology -- Microwave applications -- Minimally invasive technologies -- Mobile apps -- Molecular design -- Mutual funds -- Natural and organic groceries -- Noise control and technology -- Nutritional supplements -- Ocean energy -- On-demand companies -- Optical sensing and infrared sensory devices -- Organs on a chip -- Outsourcing -- Oxygen therapy -- Parallel processing computers -- Patient advocacy -- Peer-to-peer lending -- Pet products and services -- Pharmacogenomics -- Photonics -- Photovoltaic systems -- Physical fitness products -- Premium bottled beverages -- Private maritime security -- Professional employer organizations -- Professional executive recruiting -- Prosthetics and orthotics -- Push technology -- Quick care clinics -- Radio frequency identification -- Real escape rooms -- Robo-advisors -- Robotics and industrial automation -- Satellites -- Seawater greenhouses -- Semiconductors -- Sleep clinics -- Smart cards -- Smart homes -- Smoking cessation products and services -- Social media -- Software as a service -- Specialty coffee -- Specialty tourism -- Stem cell research -- Tablet computers -- Telemedicine -- Telephone services and accessories -- Tissue engineering -- Upcycling -- Vape shops -- Venture capital firms -- Virtual currency -- Virtual reality -- Voice biometrics -- Voice recognition systems and software -- Waste management -- Water and air filtration and purification systems -- Wearable computing -- Weight loss products and services -- Wireless communications -- Wound care -- Yoga/Wellness.

Provides information about the inception, emergence and current status of new and established industries and business segments that are pioneering new technologies, introducing break-through marketing strategies or implementing innovative means of serving new markets. Consists of detailed profiles newer industries, such as biometrics, risk management services, satellites, specialty tourism, and others.