The ability to develop new, innovative ideas and quickly turn them into real products and services is what differentiates leaders from their competitors in this global economy.  As an engineer, understanding which of these processes and activities to encourage and foster is critical to supporting real technological innovation - even “intrapreneurship” - within your team.

ASME’s CEEI offers access to resources in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, and supporting the creative process.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ASME Professional Practice Curriculum: Business Incubators Imagine having the skills and the ideas necessary to create a revolutionary new product or service, but not having the resources, equipment and business support needed to execute your vision. Perhaps you already face this situation today. Some of the best products and services will be forever destined to never leave the drawing board unless, that is, their creators find alternative ways to bring them to market. Have you ever considered the business incubator?
ASME Professional Practice Curriculum: Business Planning This module will address common issues and techniques with project and contract work. It is designed to empower both self-employed entrepreneurs and employees venturing outside the company for projects on the side. The topics covered in this course will address issues with real life application and language.
ASME Professional Practice Curriculum: High-Tech Start-ups When you think of high tech start-ups, you probably think of the businesses that have become household names. You don't hear very much about businesses that failed, or of the people who developed great inventions but weren't able to build successful companies with them.
Kauffman Foundation The Kauffman Foundation's vision is to foster “a society of economically independent individuals who are engaged citizens, contributing to the improvement of their communities.” In service of this vision, and in keeping with our founder’s wishes, we focus our grant making and operations on two areas: advancing entrepreneurship and improving the education of children and youth.
U.S. Small Business Administration The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation.
Small Business Innovation Research Coach Facts, opinions, and musings about the SBIR Program from Fred Patterson, a 20+ year SBIR practitioner and advocist. Co-founder of companies that won multiple awards. An author and frequently invited speaker on SBIR issues. On the national scene as "The SBIR Coach" since 2001.
Small Business Technology Council The Small Business Technology Council is a non-partisan, non-profit industry association of companies dedicated to promoting the creation and growth of research-intensive, technology-based U.S. small business.
INNOVATION
(Video) Testimony Before House Comm on Small Business (R. Bendis, 7/9/09)
Industry Roundtable on Breakthrough Innovation 2009 ASME Annual Meeting session explored how to drive breakthrough innovation through case studies.
NIST Technology Institute Program (TIP) The Technology Innovation Program (TIP) supports, promotes, and accelerates innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need. TIP has the agility and flexibility to make targeted investments in transformational R&D that will ensure our Nation’s future through sustained technological leadership.
Radical Innovation Group The RI Group helps companies to address the challenges of adopting a disciplined approach to innovation to drive organic growth and corporate renewal. We do this by working through implementation issues associated with the structural, organizational and management requirements for new business creation. By focusing on strategic clarity and uncertainty reduction during project discovery and incubation, projects transition smoothly into the new product development process.
State Science and Technology Institute SSTI is a national nonprofit organization that leads, supports and strengthens efforts to improve state and regional economies through science, technology and innovation.  As the most comprehensive resource available for those involved in technology-based economic development, SSTI offers the services that are needed to help build tech-based economies.