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U. of C.’s Polsky Center Plans Big Expansion into New 20-Story Hyde Park Complex

The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is planning to more than double its footprint, adding space in a proposed 20-story office and laboratory complex designed to…

Polsky Center Announces 2017 Summer Accelerator Cohort

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups…

Innovation Fund Invests $500,000 in Microbiome Research and Energy Companies

The University of Chicago Innovation Fund announced plans to invest up to $500,000 into three companies—AVNovum, ClostraBio, and SwitchedSource—that are working in the health and energy fields, respectively. These latest…

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…

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…

This Startup Aims to Disrupt the Art Gallery

Entrepreneur Nika Koda believes art galleries are broken, both for buyers and artists. The art world has a reputation for being lofty and prestigious, she said, a misconception that can…

This Startup Wants to Lay the Groundwork for Future loT Startups

As the price of connected sensors continues to drop, companies are coming up with ever-more inventive ways to do things like embed them into kids’ clothes, use them to track…

Rate Your Chicago Police Encounter with Excuse Me Officer

A Chicago startup wants to let citizens rate and review interactions with police officers, a la Yelp. The Excuse Me Officer website, and its upcoming mobile app, could provide data…

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