2016 Cohort
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New initiative connects entrepreneurs with leading Illinois energy lab
A new initiative at Argonne National Laboratory seeks to accelerate energy innovation by embedding promising young entrepreneurs in one of the nation’s foremost national laboratories. Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) targets technology’s so-called “Valley of Death,” where smart scientific ideas in energy or other fields fail to translate to real-world results. Many times, the inability to go from lab bench to factory floor is the result of a lack of money, materials, time, business acumen or experience. With CRI, Argonne will give five early-stage energy innovators access to all of those coveted assets. Read More
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U.S. energy secretary makes plea for Argonne
"You want to institutionalize something, show value-added," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz today in Chicago to announce a mentorship program at the southwest suburban lab for young entrepreneurs. Moniz went on to tout politically embraceable benefits of Argonne's work, including computing research "central to the cancer moon shot," and drew laughter when he told the first five fellows in the Chain Reactions Innovations program, "You're going to create fabulous export markets for the United States." Read More
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Indiana Entrepreneur Named to Clean Energy Program
A Purdue University entrepreneur is one of five chosen for the Argonne National Laboratory's new Chain Reaction Innovations program. A panel of judges selected Ian Hamilton, chief executive officer of Atlas Energy Systems, to take part in the initiative, which aims to accelerate the development of sustainable energy technologies. Read More
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Innovators join first entrepreneurial program at Argonne National Laboratory
The Midwest’s first entrepreneurial program to embed innovators in a national laboratory announced its inaugural group of entrepreneurs and mentor partners, including the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Read More
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Innovators Drawn to Illinois by Argonne National Laboratory’s First Embedded Entrepreneurship Program
In an event today with U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Senator Dick Durbin (D-III) at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the Midwest’s first entrepreneurship program to embed innovators in a national laboratory, announced the selection of its first members and mentor partners. Read More
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CWRU engineering grad student chosen to take part in Energy Department's new Chain Reaction Innovations program
Felipe Gomez del Campo, a graduate student in aerospace engineering at Case Western Reserve University, is one of five people chosen to take part in a two-year entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill. Read More
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These Are the First Four Startups in Argonne's Chain Reaction Innovations
Over the past six months, over 100 applicants from 22 states applied to be a part of the incubator. On Tuesday, Argonne, along with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin announced the first four startups that will kick off Chain Reactions Innovations. Read More
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CRI Announces First Cohort and Mentor Partners
In an event today with U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Senator Dick Durbin (D-III) at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the Midwest’s first entrepreneurship program to embed innovators in a national laboratory, announced the… Read More
