The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is an American nonprofit professional society that organizes and publishes information about

new product development New product development (NPD) or product development in business and engineering covers the complete process of launching a new product to the market. Product development also includes the renewal of an existing product and introducing a product ...

. Founded in 1976, they currently have about 3500 members worldwide, with 22 chapters in the United States and 16 affiliates in other parts of the world, including

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

. PDMA operates a training program leading to the New Product Development Professional (NPDP) certification. They hold an annual conference that gives an opportunity for professional exchange, and they offer a wide range of publications, including: * The bimonthly '' Journal of Product Innovation Management'' (JPIM)Journal of Product Innovation Management - Journal Information
Wiley-Blackwell * Visions Magazine * PDMA Handbook of New Product Development.Kenneth B. Kahn (editor)
The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development, Second Edition
published by

John Wiley & Sons John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley (), is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Publishing, publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials. The company was founded in 1807 and pr ...

. . * further books on product development topics The JPIM journal, published by

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and held in numerous university libraries, ranked 19 out of 40 marketing journals that were evaluated for their usefulness in a 2002 study.

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