Engineering Entrepreneurship from Idea to Business Plan is for engineers and scientists interested in both creating new products and starting a business plan to sell them. Technology-based business plan contests with large monetary awards have been cropping up worldwide, which is a clear indication that many wealthy investors are on the lookout for innovative, technology-based businesses. This text shows how to sharpen a new idea and turn it into a useful commercial product, conduct patent research and complete a provisional patent application, and collect the requisite data, prepare a business model and create a business plan with projected cash flow.