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Polsky Center Leader Starr Marcello Testifies Before Congress

Starr Marcello, executive director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, testified before the United States House of Representatives Small Business Committee on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The hearing,…

Women in STEM: Nancy Harvey

Nancy Harvey, Managing Director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Chicago, discusses how she got her start, the mission of the Center and tips…

Booth ETA Hopefuls Pitch at the Third Annual Search Fund Summit

“This is why I believe I will be a good CEO and partner, and why I think you should invest in my fund.” You don’t often hear phrases like this…

The New Chicago Makers

The hobbyist has turned entrepreneur. While the Maker Movement was comprised of a hacking, tinkering “tech-influenced DIY community,” the next wave of makers is interested in creating physical products and…

Chicago’s Next Tech Boom: The Maker Entrepreneur

At the University of Chicago-affiliated Polsky Fab Lab, assistant director Elizabeth Koprucki actually finds incoming students often already have experience with maker spaces. It can even be a selling point…

2017’s Best and Worst Small Cities to Start a Business

For insight into starting a business in a small city and advice on overcoming the challenges they pose, WalletHub turned to a panel of experts for their thoughts on key…

57th Street Design Started by Son in Father’s 57th Street Bookcase Workshop

Sam Devenport is carrying on his father’s love of woodworking and is finding fans of his burgeoning furniture company far beyond his native Hyde Park. A little less than a…

New Polsky Incubator Cohort Announced

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced the companies that will be moving into the Polsky Incubator this April as members of the new cohort. The Polsky Incubator…

UChicago Polsky Center Director E.J. Reedy: Still Time to Complete 2017 Americas Alternative Finance Industry Survey

It’s official, alternative finance platforms have been granted an extension to respond to 2017 Americas Alternative Finance Industry Survey. Complete it now — it will only take 20 minutes and…

Polsky Center Receives $30,000 National Science Foundation Grant for Female STEM Entrepreneurs

Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that the University of Chicago was one of eight Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) sites and nodes across the nation that have been selected…

Sixteen Advances in Research and Innovation in 2016

2016 brought us the launch of several research-based startups, the invention of a new diamond-like coating, the deployment of data-collection nodes across Chicago and a next-generation platform for cancer research.…

2017 Americas Alternative Finance Industry Study: The University of Chicago & University Cambridge Partner on Research

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge…
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