Announcements
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CRI Announces First Cohort and Mentor Partners
In an event today with U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Senator Dick Durbin (D-III) at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the Midwest’s first entrepreneurship program to embed innovators in a national laboratory, announced the … Read More
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CRI and Mission Innovation Highlighted at The Current Happy Hour
Join us at The Current happy hour on Dec. 1 to hear the latest policy updates—particularly Mission Innovation, an initiative to double public investment in clean energy research and development. Learn about federal funding opportunities for your company, programs to help you partner with government … Read More
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CRI featured at PEW clean energy forum in Michigan
As a prelude to the 2016 Michigan Energy Innovators Gala, small-business leaders will hear about Chain Reaction Innovations and Nano Design Works, two Argonne National Laboratory programs aimed at leveraging the resources of a national laboratory to expedite entrepreneurship. The panel “From the Lab to … Read More
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Argonne technology experts welcome at CRI semi-finals
The semi-finals for the first cohort of Argonne’s new technology incubator, Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), will take place September 13. Between 15 and 20 innovators from across the country will give a 10-minute presentation followed by a Q&A from judges. Argonne employees are invited … Read More
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Urban Business Roundtable: Chain Reaction Innovations
Chain Reaction Innovations Director Andreas Roelofs explains how entrepreneurs can apply for the incubator’s first cohort and how having access to expertise and tools at a national laboratory can accelerate innovation in the Chicago area. Listen to a podcast of the interview. Read More
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Newsletter: CRI Updates
Call opens for first CRI cohort. Argonne joins JUMP crowdsourcing initiative to fund technology innovation and issues a call for ideas to improve humidity sensors in buildings. Read more: … Read More
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MIT report on cleantech investment touts national lab incubators
The report “Venture Capital and Cleantech: The Wrong Model for Clean Energy Innovation” put out by the MIT Energy Initiative highlights the need for increased government support of clean tech innovations. The report also points to the need to replicate the new model of incubators … 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. Read more … Read More
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Energy Technology Incubator Offers 2 Years of Funding and Technical Aid
Innovators working on energy and science technologies can get two years worth of financial and technical support by applying to a new incubator at Argonne National Laboratory. The application period opened July 12 for the incubator named Chain Reaction Innovations. Applications are due by 5 … Read More
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Progress on President Obama’s “Lab to Market” Initiative
Argonne National Laboratory scientist Ralph Muehleisen describes why he took the path of commercializing his technology through a startup. Muehleisen worked with Lab-Corps and entrepreneurs to market Sonic Leak Quantifier (SonicLQ) a technology that uses sound to locate air leaks in buildings and determine the … Read More
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CRI Startup Super.tech Releases SuperstaQ
Chain Reaction Innovations Cohort 4 startup Super.tech releases first product aimed at enabling the adoption of quantum computing years sooner than otherwise possible There’s a lot of hype around quantum. The technology is still very new yet there is enormous potential for … Read More
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Super.tech Announces Quantum Software Platform SuperstaQ
SuperstaQ aims to make quantum computing commercially viable years sooner than otherwise possible CHICAGO, IL, AUGUST 16TH, 2021 – Today, SUPER.TECH LABS INC. announced SuperstaQ, a hardware-agnostic software platform that connects applications to quantum computers from IBM Quantum, IonQ, and Rigetti. SuperstaQ delivers performance gains via optimizations that … Read More
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Apply for CRI's Cohort 6
Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, will begin accepting applications on September 21 for Cohort 6. Entrepreneurs in any technology area that can leverage Argonne’s resources in partnership with the Advanced Manufacturing Office of the Department of Energy (DOE) are … Read More
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Duality Quantum Accelerator Accepts Six Startups into Inaugural Cohort
Chicago Quantum Exchange July 15, 2021 Duality, the nation’s first accelerator exclusively for quantum companies, has accepted six startups for Cohort 1. Duality is led by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), … Read More
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DOE Selects the Midwest Regional Innovation Partnership for Award from Energy Program for Innovation Clusters
CHICAGO, IL – June 8, 2021 – Clean Energy Trust, Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Technological University, mHUB, and Spark Innovation Center today announced that their Midwest Regional Innovation Partnership was selected for an award of over $900,000 … Read More
