Press Coverage
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Argonne National Laboratory Celebrates 70 Years of Cutting-Edge Research
Chain Reaction Innovations Director Andreas Roelofs highlights the unique tools available for use at Argonne National Laboratory by the lab's 1,600 scientists and engineers as well as the innovators that collaborate with them. Read More
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Meet the Clean Energy Player Removing Barriers to Entry for Entrepreneurs
The term "barrier to entry" describes "the existence of high start-up costs or other obstacles that prevent new competitors from easily entering an industry or area of business." When one barrier to entry is eliminated, start-ups rejoice. But what if multiple barriers evaporate, all in one fell swoop? Read More
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New Commitments to Accelerate Investment in the Clean-Energy Transformation
Getting clean-energy innovations to market can require access to costly scientific equipment, along with patient, long-term capital to meet rigorous technical and market milestones. Both government and philanthropy can play a catalytic role for entrepreneurs at the earliest stages. For example, just last week, the DOE launched Chain Reaction Innovations, a new incubator for clean-energy entrepreneurs embedded within Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Read More
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New Commitments to Accelerate Investment in the Clean-Energy Transformation
Getting clean-energy innovations to market can require access to costly scientific equipment, along with patient, long-term capital to meet rigorous technical and market milestones. Both government and philanthropy can play a catalytic role for entrepreneurs at the earliest stages. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations is DOE's Newest Investment in the Clean Energy Innovation Ecosystem
Investing in our best and brightest entrepreneurs is crucial to the transition to a global clean energy economy. Argonne is a tremendous resource for would-be entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams in accelerating the creation of transformative products focused on energy, manufacturing, and sustainability. Read More
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The Opening Bell 05-31-16: Tech Tuesday!
New Argonne National Laboratory program provides funding and R&D support to innovators from across the country to launch new energy and science-based technologies. Read More
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Argonne Opens First Ever Tech Incubator
Start-up incubators are everywhere, but none can compare to ‘Chain Reaction Innovations’ when it comes to great R-and-D assistance. For the first time ever, Argonne National Lab has set up a program to help tech start-ups in connection with the Office of Energy Efficiency and… Read More
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New Argonne National Lab Program to Provide Entrepreneurs with Unparalleled Opportunity to Launch Clean Energy and Science-Based Ventures
To meet this challenge, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Argonne National Laboratory announced today a new innovation accelerator program for science and energy entrepreneurs called Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI). Read More
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Argonne’s New Tech Incubator Includes Access to Mira Supercomputer
To help entrepreneurs bridge this commercialization valley of death, CRI will support cutting-edge innovators to work on early-stage technologies that can deliver game-changing impact to the energy industry. Read More
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Tech roundup: Huge week for tech at Chicago universities, Argonne's new incubator, & more
Argonne National Laboratory, a science and engineering research laboratory operated by the University of Chicago right outside the city, is launching a new incubator for science-centered startups. Read More
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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