Press Coverage
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Argonne launching first technology incubator for clean energy ideas
Ideas for the clean energy of the future could find a launchpad at a new program at Argonne National Laboratory near Darien. Chain Reaction Innovators is seeking science-minded entrepreneurs with ideas who want to connect with expert researchers, world-class technology and mentorship at the… Read More
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Software Ate Cleantech: Now What?
A look at the past, present and future state of investment in cleantech. Public funding and access to cleantech accelerators and incubators, such as Chain Reaction Innovations, are key components for the success of future cleantech startups. Read more. Read More
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Why Silicon Valley and Cleantech Don't Mix
First, public-sector support of energy R&D has been buoyed by ARPA-E, the Department of Energy’s advanced research projects arm. More recently, in committing to Mission Innovation at the Paris climate talks last year, President Obama pledged to double the nation’s energy R&D budget over the next several years. Other commercialization and technology transfer efforts within the Department of Energy have provided increased access to our National Laboratories and infused an entrepreneurial culture inside the Lab system. In just the past few years, DOE has launched Cyclotron Road and Chain Reaction Innovations, Small Business Vouchers, and LabCorps, and has established the new Office of Technology Transitions. Read More
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Applications open for NatLabs’ innovators for Chain Reaction Innovations: 2 year support deals
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, opened the application process to select the first national cohort of innovators for Chain Reaction Innovations. Read more. Read More
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Argonne National Lab warms up new incubator to grow energy technologies
Argonne National Lab (Argonne, Ill.) is now accepting applications from intrepid entrepreneurs for its brand new and fully supportive energy incubator program, Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI). Read more. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens Call for First Startup Cohort of Energy Innovators
Earlier this year, we announced the launch of Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the newest addition to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs (LEEP), which are sponsored by the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) and managed in collaboration with the Technology-to-Market office. Argonne National Laboratory,… 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. On July 12, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, opened the application process to select the first national cohort of innovators for Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI). Read More
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National Labs are Nurturing Clean-Energy Startups
Argonne National Laboratory's launch of a new business incubator in May replicates an 18-month-old entity at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that has attracted considerable interest from aspiring clean-energy-technology entrepreneurs. Argonne's program, dubbed Chain Reaction Innovations, and Lawrence Berkeley's Cyclotron Road aim to provide a small number of energy innovators with access to advanced tools and mentoring to help mature their technologies so they can attract early-stage investors. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens the Call for its First Startup Cohort
Argonne National Laboratory has launched a new innovation incubator called Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) that will provide $4.4 million in funds to energy and physical science startups. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens the Call for its First Startup Cohort
Argonne National Laboratory seeks innovators for its new incubator. Read More
Latest Updates
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Pivot, not Panic: Chain Reaction Innovations is Driving Startup Success
By focusing on the needs of founders, Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations program provides startups with funding, expertise and laboratory resources to turn innovative clean-energy technologies into market-changing companies. As a result of his work at Argonne, Gary Ong, founder and CEO of Celadyne Technologies, is… Read More
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Director's Letter
Dear Friends of CRI, Welcome to the Summer 2024 issue of the CRI newsletter. In it, you’ll see the breadth of our spring and summer activities. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to CRI’s newest cohort. Welcoming a new cohort is… Read More
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LEEP Demo Day 2024
In May, the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program’s (LEEP) Demo Day featured graduating cohorts from the four LEEP nodes including Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory, Innovation Crossroads at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, West Gate at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Cyclotron Road at Lawrence… Read More
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CRI Seeks Applicants for Next Cohort
Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), a Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, will begin accepting applications for Cohort 2025 on September 4th, the program’s ninth group of early-stage startups. Innovators with emerging science and energy… Read More
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Entrepreneurship program at Argonne Announces Newest Cohort
Five new innovators will join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the award-winning program’s eighth cohort. The five will join the two-year program starting this… Read More
