This article outlines the basic corporate engineering process that leads to the commercialization of a knowledge engineering concept, or software process. The development of a commercial product and enterprise from a technology-driven research effort or idea is quite similar to the process of continual refinement and hard work demanded by the scientific method, so the fundamentals of corporate and product development should not appear foreign to academics or those involved in corporate research. Knowledge engineering and related disciplines are on the verge of significant commercial product development efforts. The process of commercialization of ideas, particularly those derived from academic and research environments may not be intuitively obvious to the KE professional. The author outlines the general process of commercializing KE products and describes the three primary functional activities required to undertake a successful technology-driven commercial enterprise—market and customer definition, the development of the product prototype and corporate infrastructure, and capitalization.