Press Coverage
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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens the Call for its First Startup Cohort
Chain Reaction Innovations opens the call for its first startup cohort. Read More
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Put the Power of a National Lab Behind Your Startup
Chain Reaction Innovation Director Andreas Roelofs answers questions about how to accelerate getting your idea for new technology involving energy or advanced manufacturing to the marketplace with the help of Argonne National Laboratory. Read More
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Argonne National Laboratory Celebrates 70 Years of Cutting-Edge Research
Chain Reaction Innovations Director Andreas Roelofs highlights the unique tools available for use at Argonne National Laboratory by the lab's 1,600 scientists and engineers as well as the innovators that collaborate with them. Read More
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Meet the Clean Energy Player Removing Barriers to Entry for Entrepreneurs
The term "barrier to entry" describes "the existence of high start-up costs or other obstacles that prevent new competitors from easily entering an industry or area of business." When one barrier to entry is eliminated, start-ups rejoice. But what if multiple barriers evaporate, all in one fell swoop? Read More
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New Commitments to Accelerate Investment in the Clean-Energy Transformation
Getting clean-energy innovations to market can require access to costly scientific equipment, along with patient, long-term capital to meet rigorous technical and market milestones. Both government and philanthropy can play a catalytic role for entrepreneurs at the earliest stages. For example, just last week, the DOE launched Chain Reaction Innovations, a new incubator for clean-energy entrepreneurs embedded within Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Read More
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New Commitments to Accelerate Investment in the Clean-Energy Transformation
Getting clean-energy innovations to market can require access to costly scientific equipment, along with patient, long-term capital to meet rigorous technical and market milestones. Both government and philanthropy can play a catalytic role for entrepreneurs at the earliest stages. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations is DOE's Newest Investment in the Clean Energy Innovation Ecosystem
Investing in our best and brightest entrepreneurs is crucial to the transition to a global clean energy economy. Argonne is a tremendous resource for would-be entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams in accelerating the creation of transformative products focused on energy, manufacturing, and sustainability. Read More
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The Opening Bell 05-31-16: Tech Tuesday!
New Argonne National Laboratory program provides funding and R&D support to innovators from across the country to launch new energy and science-based technologies. Read More
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Argonne Opens First Ever Tech Incubator
Start-up incubators are everywhere, but none can compare to ‘Chain Reaction Innovations’ when it comes to great R-and-D assistance. For the first time ever, Argonne National Lab has set up a program to help tech start-ups in connection with the Office of Energy Efficiency and… Read More
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New Argonne National Lab Program to Provide Entrepreneurs with Unparalleled Opportunity to Launch Clean Energy and Science-Based Ventures
To meet this challenge, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Argonne National Laboratory announced today a new innovation accelerator program for science and energy entrepreneurs called Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI). Read More
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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