Announcements
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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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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens the Application Process for Mentor Partners
Argonne National Laboratory believes that the impact of Chain Reaction Innovations is maximized via public-private partnerships. Argonne is seeking one or more not-for-profit, private sector or university incubator collaborators for such a partnership. Read More
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Argonne Launches First Tech Incubator
Developing transformative energy technologies and cleaner manufacturing processes and new materials requires more than a great idea and some committed people. It takes an innovation ecosystem. Read More
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5 clean energy startups chosen for Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations
Cutting-edge startups embed at Argonne to develop innovative technologies that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen emerging U.S. energy technologies. Aerial view of Argonne. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Seven new innovators will join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) … Read More
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UChicago Spinout Super.tech Acquired by Quantum Ecosystem Leader ColdQuanta
Originally published May 10, 2022, by UChicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation A University of Chicago quantum software spinout and Duality Cohort 1 participant, Super.tech has been acquired by the global quantum ecosystem leader, ColdQuanta. Super.tech is embedded in Argonne National Laboratory’s Chain Reaction Innovations program and … Read More
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Finalists Chosen for CRI's Cohort 6
Eighteen individuals comprising 15 startups advanced to the Finals pitch competition to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ Cohort 6. A broad range of energy innovations are represented in this year’s applicants, including energy storage, circular economy, quantum information systems, manufacturing, materials and renewable energy. CRI focused … Read More
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Semi-finalists Chosen for Cohort 6
Thirty-two individuals comprising 28 startups were chosen to advance to the semi-finals and compete to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ Cohort 6. A broad range of energy innovations are represented in this year’s applicants, including energy storage and generation, water, decarbonization, circular economy, quantum, manufacturing, and … Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations Team Recognized by UChicago Board of Governors
Chain Reaction Innovations’ (CRI) leadership team was recently recognized by the UChicago Argonne Board of Governors with a Distinguished Performance Award. The Award is given annually to honor lab achievements and celebrate their impact, thereby strengthening the core values of Argonne National Laboratory. The Distinguished … Read More
