Press Coverage
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Argonne’s New Tech Incubator Includes Access to Mira Supercomputer
To help entrepreneurs bridge this commercialization valley of death, CRI will support cutting-edge innovators to work on early-stage technologies that can deliver game-changing impact to the energy industry. Read More
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Tech roundup: Huge week for tech at Chicago universities, Argonne's new incubator, & more
Argonne National Laboratory, a science and engineering research laboratory operated by the University of Chicago right outside the city, is launching a new incubator for science-centered startups. Read More
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Chain Reaction creates innovative incubator for transformative energy tech
To meet the challenge of developing transformative energy technologies and cleaner manufacturing processes and new materials the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Argonne National Laboratory have launched a new innovation accelerator program for science and energy entrepreneurs called Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI). Read More
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DOE launches Midwest energy accelerator
Argonne National Laboratory yesterday debuted an accelerator program that is meant to connect young entrepreneurs working on bold but difficult ideas with the lab's deep bench of experts and their state-of-the-art equipment. Read More
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Argonne National Lab Launches Incubator for Hi-tech Startups
With mission to develop an innovation ecosystem the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Argonne National Laboratory announced innovation accelerator program for science and energy startups called Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI). Read More
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Tech Incubator For Clean Energy Coming To Argonne National Lab
The Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) program for scientists and energy entrepreneurs will open up its application process later this summer. Through the program, announced Tuesday, participants can work with Argonne's researchers, engineers and equipment. Read More
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Argonne’s New Tech Incubator Includes Access to Mira Supercomputer
Chain Reaction Innovations will provide innovators access to Argonne’s deep network of 1,400 multidisciplinary researchers and engineers as well as unique tools, including the Mira supercomputer and the nation’s highest-energy X-ray source, the Advanced Photon Source. Through a partnership with mentor organizations, CRI participants will also receive assistance with developing business strategies, conducting market research and finding long-term financing and commercial partners. Read More
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Argonne National Lab Comes up with a Startup Incubator
Most startups need access to capital and guidance at the initial stage. Lemont-based Argonne National Lab launches a new incubator known as Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) for tech-startups. CRI aims to narrow the gap for startups between the lab and marketplace. 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
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
