Announcements
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August CRI Newsletter
In this issue, learn about how Emergy is growing bio-designed carbon with improved properties, hear why the first cohort of innovators joined CRI, and sign up for a webinar where you can ask questions about the Sept. 5 opening of the application period for the second cohort. Read More
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Capstone and FGC Plasma Solutions to test new plasma combustion technology
Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST), a leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced today that it has partnered with FGC Plasma Solutions to test a new plasma-assisted fuel injection technology in its C65 microturbine. FGC Plasma Solutions has engineered a fuel injection technology that incorporates plasma to better control combustion in jet engines and gas turbines. The technology enables more optimum operation of the engine as well as benefits from lower emissions, increased fuel flexibility and improved reliability. Read More
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April 2017 CRI Newsletter
Innovator spotlight on Ian Hamilton and his technology for a radioisotope battery that lasts 400 years and is cheaper and more efficient than today's nuclear batteries. CRI announces the selection of its first cohort and prepares to accept applications for the second cohort. Read More
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Clean Energy Trust Challenge Accepting Applications Until Jan. 17
The Clean Energy Trust (CET) Challenge is one of the nation’s largest fundraising events for energy tech startups. This is the eight year of the program and the third consecutive year that CET has committed to invest $1,000,000 in cleantech startups in the Midwest. The… Read More
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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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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
