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ClearFlame Engines wins $10,000 in M-WERC Demo Day presentation
Punctuating another innovative and productive WERCBench Labs Accelerator program season, M-WERC hosted a successful Demo Day March 5 at our Energy Innovation Center in Milwaukee. Each participating startup presented to the audience and competed for cash prizes highlighted by ClearFlame Engines, which took first place and won $10,000. Read More
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TEDxMacatawa brings ideas, innovation to Holland
Tom Guarr, director of research and development at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute and co-founder of Jolt Energy Storage, outlined a future without grids — powered by solar energy and organic batteries. “We can disconnect the grid entirely,” Guarr said. “That gives us a way to finally bring 100 percent reliable solar-derived power on a 24/7 basis to those 1 billion people that didn’t have it 15 minutes ago.” Read More
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Argonne, mHUB sign agreement to advance high-tech manufacturing in Chicago
A powerful new partnership will boost the Chicago-area innovation ecosystem while providing a new model for manufacturing for high-tech start-ups. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with mHUB, a Chicago-based innovation center dedicated to … Read More
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Northwestern Researcher Awarded Department of Energy Tech-To-Market Fellowship at Argonne
Jung Woo “Ted” Seo accelerates lithium-ion battery performance for extreme conditions. Read More
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3 Startups That Are Defying The Odds And Bringing Breakthrough Discoveries To Market
Chain Reaction Innovations participant Atlas Energy is working to bring nuclear batteries to industry. Read More
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Meet 3 energy innovators getting a lift from Argonne National Laboratory
The national laboratory last month announced its second class of participants for a Midwest energy entrepreneurship program. Read More
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Public-Private Partnerships Fuel American Ingenuity
Q&A with John Carlisle, Director, Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory; Bernard Johnson, Co-founder and CEO, ClearFlame; Ian Hamilton, Founder and CEO, Atlas Energy Systems, LLC; and Justin Whiteley; Chief technology officer and co-founder, Emergy. Read More
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Olin Alumna Selected for Prestigious Tech Incubator at Argonne National Lab
Erika Boeing, a 2010 graduate of Olin College, has won a spot in a competitive national program to grow startup technologies at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Boeing will be among the second cohort to take part in the Chain Reaction Innovations program, one … Read More
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Energy Department Announces Second Cohort of Innovators in Midwest Entrepreneurship Program
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the second cohort of innovators to join Chain Reaction Innovations, the Midwest region’s first entrepreneurial research and development program based at Argonne National Laboratory, the nation’s first national laboratory. Six innovators were selected from a highly competitive pool of … Read More
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Organic battery researcher selected for innovation program at Argonne National Lab
Future alternative energy success is highly dependent on the ability to store that energy once captured. Tom Guarr, co-founder of Jolt Energy Storage Technologies LLC, and researcher at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Michigan, is pioneering new technology … Read More
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DOE Selects the Midwest Regional Innovation Partnership for Award from Energy Program for Innovation Clusters
CHICAGO, IL – June 8, 2021 – Clean Energy Trust, Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Technological University, mHUB, and Spark Innovation Center today announced that their Midwest Regional Innovation Partnership was selected for an award of over $900,000 … Read More
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5th Cohort of Five Innovators Selected
Lemont, IL (April 30, 2021) — Five new innovators will be joining Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the elite program’s fifth cohort. The five will join the two-year program starting this June, and each … Read More
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Sustainable Energy Outlook: The Limitations, Opportunities, and Role of Water
Published on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 A panel of expert venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in the field of energy businesses discussed the state of the industry in 2021 as part of Polsky’s Entrepreneurial Outlook series. (Image credit: iStock.com/piyaset) The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship … Read More
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National Labs, Polsky Center, and I-Corps Create Commercialization Partnership
A unique partnership between two of the Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs (LEEP) and the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) I-Corps Program will offer valuable additional support for early-stage clean energy startups. Innovators in Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) and Innovation Crossroads (IC) will receive … Read More
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Cohort 5 Virtual Pitch Competition Slated for February 9th – 10th
Through an annual call, four to six startups are selected to join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), a two-year program for innovators focused on energy and science technologies. Program participants will receive financial and technical support to mature and de-risk their technologies to the proof-of-concept level. Read More
