Press Coverage
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Why Silicon Valley and Cleantech Don't Mix
First, public-sector support of energy R&D has been buoyed by ARPA-E, the Department of Energy’s advanced research projects arm. More recently, in committing to Mission Innovation at the Paris climate talks last year, President Obama pledged to double the nation’s energy R&D budget over the next several years. Other commercialization and technology transfer efforts within the Department of Energy have provided increased access to our National Laboratories and infused an entrepreneurial culture inside the Lab system. In just the past few years, DOE has launched Cyclotron Road and Chain Reaction Innovations, Small Business Vouchers, and LabCorps, and has established the new Office of Technology Transitions. Read More
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Applications open for NatLabs’ innovators for Chain Reaction Innovations: 2 year support deals
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, opened the application process to select the first national cohort of innovators for Chain Reaction Innovations. Read more. Read More
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Argonne National Lab warms up new incubator to grow energy technologies
Argonne National Lab (Argonne, Ill.) is now accepting applications from intrepid entrepreneurs for its brand new and fully supportive energy incubator program, Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI). Read more. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens Call for First Startup Cohort of Energy Innovators
Earlier this year, we announced the launch of Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the newest addition to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs (LEEP), which are sponsored by the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) and managed in collaboration with the Technology-to-Market office. Argonne National Laboratory,… Read More
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Entrepreneur Application Opens for New $4.4 Million Energy Incubator at Argonne National Laboratory
Two years' worth of financial and technical support to grow the next big idea in energy technology in the Midwest is now a reality for the nation's best and brightest innovators. On July 12, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, opened the application process to select the first national cohort of innovators for Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI). Read More
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National Labs are Nurturing Clean-Energy Startups
Argonne National Laboratory's launch of a new business incubator in May replicates an 18-month-old entity at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that has attracted considerable interest from aspiring clean-energy-technology entrepreneurs. Argonne's program, dubbed Chain Reaction Innovations, and Lawrence Berkeley's Cyclotron Road aim to provide a small number of energy innovators with access to advanced tools and mentoring to help mature their technologies so they can attract early-stage investors. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens the Call for its First Startup Cohort
Argonne National Laboratory has launched a new innovation incubator called Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) that will provide $4.4 million in funds to energy and physical science startups. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens the Call for its First Startup Cohort
Argonne National Laboratory seeks innovators for its new incubator. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens the Call for its First Startup Cohort
Chain Reaction Innovations opens the call for its first startup cohort. Read More
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Put the Power of a National Lab Behind Your Startup
Chain Reaction Innovation Director Andreas Roelofs answers questions about how to accelerate getting your idea for new technology involving energy or advanced manufacturing to the marketplace with the help of Argonne National Laboratory. Read More
Latest Updates
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Semi-finalists Chosen for CRI's Cohort 8
Twenty-eight individuals with a wide range of startup technologies were chosen to advance to the semi-finals and compete to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ (CRI) Cohort 8. A broad range of innovations are represented in this year’s applicants, including energy generation and distribution, bioremediation, anti-fouling, mineralization,… Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations wins a 2023 Chicago Innovation Award
Chain Reaction Innovations has been recognized for solving unmet needs, creating jobs and generating new funding in the Chicago metro area. Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, has been recognized with a Chicago Innovation Award. (Image by Chicago Innovation.) Chain… Read More
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Entrepreneurship program at Argonne opens applications for startups
Chain Reaction Innovations seeks innovators to join Cohort 8 OCTOBER 26, 2023 Develop your clean energy or climate technology with the support of Argonne National Laboratory’s Chain Reaction Innovations program. Application deadline is 5 p.m. CST, Nov. 30. Through Chain Reaction Innovations, early-stage… Read More
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New startups Join Argonne’s Entrepreneurship Program
Chain Reaction Innovations announces new cohort Clean energy startups embed at Argonne to develop innovative technologies that hold promise for helping mitigate climate change. Four startups joined Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne, to develop clean-energy technologies over two years. Four new… Read More
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Demo Day Showcased Innovators at Four National Labs
Argonne hosted Demo Day in downtown Chicago, an event celebrating innovation at four laboratory-embedded entrepreneurship programs. Resilience of innovators recognized at gathering of national lab-based technology incubators. Getting an invention or new breakthrough from the laboratory into the broader world requires more than just a… Read More