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How IP Helped My Business Thrive, And How It Helps Indiana, Too

On the reality television series “Shark Tank,” venture capitalists like “Mr. Wonderful” are much more eager to invest in companies that have a patent or patent-pending innovation. “Why can’t I just go make this myself?” is a question often asked by the “sharks.” These savvy… Read More

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Midwest technology entrepreneurship program enters second round

he Energy Department (DOE) opened the application period for innovators to join the second cohort of Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). CRI, one of DOE’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs, embeds top technical talent with ANL to perform early-stage research and development… Read More

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It turns out, clean energy sometimes is rocket science.

Felipe is the CEO of FGC Plasma Solutions which is developing new ways to use plasma to make jet engines and other turbines more efficient. FGC Plasma’s technology reduces the amount of fuel burned in those turbines. This is incredibly important because burning fuels will… Read More

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Energy Department Announces Second Round of Midwest Entrepreneurship Program to Drive Technology Innovation

The Energy Department today announced the opening of the application period for innovators to join the second cohort of Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). CRI, one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs, embeds top technical talent with… Read More

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Growing a Startup with a Big Impact from a Tiny Fungi

Entrepreneur Tyler Huggins grew up in rural Montana in a family of loggers and miners. But he wanted to have a larger impact on society as a whole, so he decided to launch a startup. He looked at many options, but they just… Read More

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Growing A Startup With A Big Impact From A Tiny Fungi

Entrepreneur Tyler Huggins grew up in rural Montana in a family of loggers and miners. But he wanted to have a larger impact on society as a whole, so he decided to launch a startup. He looked at many options, but they just didn't have the impact he craved. Until he met Justin Whiteley, a fellow entrepreneur who had been working to build next-generation battery technology near Silicon Valley. The pair formed Emergy. Read More

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Growing a startup with a big impact from a tiny fungi

Huggins and Whiteley launched their startup while post docs at the University of Colorado-Boulder and moved to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in January after earning a spot in Chain Reaction Innovations, the lab’s new program to accelerate cleantech innovation by growing entrepreneurs. Read More

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Waiting to Protect Intellectual Property Could Doom Your Startup

McCareins recently sat down with Pete Slawniak, an intellectual property lawyer at Argonne National Laboratory, and advisor to Argonne’s startup incubator called Chain Reaction Innovations. Their conversation touched on what startups of all stripes should know about… Read More

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Innovators drawn to Illinois by Argonne National Laboratory’s entrepreneurship program

Developing a great idea into a technology that impacts the market and the world is difficult. Doing so with an energy- or ­science-based technology can seem nearly impossible for ­entrepreneurs. Complex tech­nical ­challenges, long develop­ment cycles, expensive lab ­equipment, and impatient ­investors ­create high hurdles… Read More

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Plasma-assisted fueling for jets

One of the innovators at Argonne National Laboratory's Chain Reaction Innovations Program, is Felipe Gomez del Campo, a twenty something who hopes to confirm his theory that plasma can fuel jet engines. This Miami native has been working on this project since he used it for one of his science projects. Now this millennial who has visited the White House to talk about his project is working in Chicago with a team of engineers who are putting in a lot of money and research into his idea. If this is proven to be accurate, this hardware application could potentially save the airline industry millions of dollars. Read More