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 bright idea and a little bit of luck. Since 2017, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories around the country have come together as part of the Laboratory-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program, or LEEP, to bring their innovations into the marketplace.

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