Clara Asmail develops new approaches to support small R&D and manufacturing businesses with resources to commercialize technologies. Asmail is the senior technical advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP). Her career at NIST of more than 25 years includes managing the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs, plus leading optical scatterometry research projects. One of her inventions is the highest royalty bearing license at the NIST labs.