To serve the growth and innovation needs of Vermont manufacturers as well as others, VMEC offers a number of proven services to assist companies in their next stage of business and opportunity.

Innovation Engineering Management System - A Proven System for Accelerating Solutions to Your Company’s Very Important Problems & Opportunities for Profitable Growth

The Innovation Engineering System accelerates a continuous flow of innovations - big and small to address your department’s, division’s & company’s Very Important Problems & Opportunities. Major innovation projects have a dramatic impact on sales and profits. Minor projects help transform the culture. It’s a four-stage process of Define, Discover, Develop and Deliver. It integrates painlessly with classic project management systems such as Compression Planning, Stage-Gate, Design for 6 Sigma or Hoshin Planning.

Innovation Engineering Jump Start - Increases Velocity of Existing and New Ideas for Growing Your Sales and Profits

Can you give us one day?  We’ll help you get started on accelerating ideas into reality.

In just one day, your VMEC Innovation Engineering Black Belt will help you get your existing ideas moving faster and at the same time, spark a few new ideas for growing your sales and profits.  You can customize the program; however, the most popular format is a portfolio approach focusing energy on each of the three proven ways to grow sales and profits.

Vermont and National Innovation Marketplace

The "open innovation" USA and Vermont Innovation Marketplaces are designed to accelerate connections and communications between Sellers and Buyers of innovations through two-way publishing of Sellers' offerings and Buyers' requests using standardized formats.

The Vermont Innovation Marketplace is a subset of the USA National Innovation Marketplace and part of the Planet Eureka! International Network of Innovation Marketplaces. This is a service of the US Department of Commerce NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), of which the Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center (VMEC) is an affiliate.

Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute

We recognize that three days is a long time to attend a training program; however, it really takes three days to build deep confidence in the ability to lead in the Creation, Communication and Commercialization of meaningfully unique innovations.

During the three days, you will learn the Innovation Engineering System. During the evenings of the first two days, you will apply what you’ve learned to your own business or organization with the help of Innovation Engineering coaches. At the end of the three days, you will have a whole new set of ideas and plans for implementation on your first day back to work.