News Sustainable Energy Outlook: The Limitations, Opportunities, and Role of Water The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation kicked off its 2021 Entrepreneurial Outlook series with a session examining the state and potential of sustainable energy. John Carlisle, PhD, director, Chain...
News Coming Clean in Chicago The energy was palpable: Solar, wind and battery. Ideas, vigor and power. Sponsored by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth, the new Chicago-based Clean Energy Trust and Arete, the fourth annual Midwest Energy...
News Energy Tech Leaders Take to the National Stage at DOE Pitch Competition >> UPDATE: Team Rise Reforming from the University of Chicago took First Place at the event and was awarded $50,000. Since this article originally ran, Rise Reforming has switched its...
News Michael Polsky and Andy Karsner Discuss the Future of Energy Innovation Michael Polsky, CEO of Invenergy, and Andy Karsner, senior strategist at Alphabet’s X, came together in a fireside chat moderated by Chicago Booth School of Business Dean Madhav Rajan to...
News How the University of Chicago is Innovating for a Sustainable Future World IP Day 2024 is focused on exploring how IP encourages and can amplify solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. Specifically, the event – celebrated globally every year on...
News Meet the Resurgence Cohort 1 Startups: Stranergy Team Members Mei He – CEO and Founder Rui Deng – CFO and Cofounder Jianan Zheng – CIO and Cofounder Matthew Forquer – CTO and Cofounder What does your company...
Event Fireside Chat & Founders Story: Michael Polsky February 14, 2023 Hear from Invenergy founder and CEO, Michael Polsky as he digs into the special challenges he faced as a trailblazer in the energy industry, and how cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset...
News University of Chicago’s Polsky Center Launches New Cleantech Accelerator, Resurgence The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in partnership with the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) are pleased to announce the launch of Resurgence, a new...
Program Collaboratorium Showcase your research, technology, or ideas and develop a better understanding of the next steps to pursue a business opportunity.
News Making Renewable Energy Feasible UChicago licensee Electrochaea uses electricity generated by the sun or wind to convert water and carbon dioxide into methane, the chief ingredient of natural gas. From left: Matt Martin, Jeff...
News The Future of Energy Storage: Bringing Batteries to the Molecular Scale The increasing use of renewable energy and the adoption of electric vehicles among other advances are creating a significant need for inexpensive and long-lived energy storage devices. While lithium-ion batteries...
News Innovations in Energy Storage: Researchers and Technology at the University of Chicago University of Chicago researchers are advancing innovations in every discipline – leading the development of cutting-edge technologies and conducting field-defining research for the betterment of humankind. For this feature, we’ve...
