Open Government & Civic Data
Seeing open government & civic innovation as drivers of economic development By Daniel X. O’Neil, Executive Director, Smart Chicago Collaborative Yesterday was a big day in Illinois for open government and […]
Immigration and STEM Talent
By John L. Anderson, President, Illinois Institute of Technology and ISTC Board Chairman & Mark Harris, President & CEO, ISTC If Illinois is to maintain its leadership position in today’s […]
Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship
By John Flavin, Managing Director, Chicago Innovation Mentors (@CIMChicago) and Kate Anderson, Communications Manager, Chicago Innovation Mentors As thousands of visitors arrive in Chicago for next week’s 2013 BIO International Convention, April 22-25, they will come to […]
The App Economy: Driving Illinois’ Technology Economy in New Ways
By Fred Hoch, President and CEO, Illinois Technology Association (ITA) Over the past few years, much has been made of the evolving “app economy,” but what does it mean for Illinois? Frankly, […]
A New Era for Smart Grid Innovation in Illinois
By Sara Hochman, Managing Director, Energy Foundry and Jason Blumberg, CEO and Managing Director, Energy Foundry The overall concept of a “smart grid” means bringing the electricity grid (and its […]
The Rise of the Impact Entrepreneur in Illinois
By Chuck Templeton (@Ctemp), founder of OpenTable and Managing Director at Impact Engine As a transplanted entrepreneur from the San Francisco Bay Area, I have seen tremendous growth in the technology […]
Personalized Medicine
By Larisa H. Cavallari, Pharm.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago and Jerry A. Krishnan, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Associate Vice President […]
Particle Physics Research: Impact and Applications
By Bob Kephart, Director of the Illinois Accelerator Research Center at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. The Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC) is a new research facility being […]
Big Data and Computation
By Merle Giles, Director, Private Sector Program, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Illinois is poised to usher in a new era in digital […]
Health Information Technology
By Laura Zaremba, Director, Illinois Office of Health Information Technology The health care industry in Illinois and across the country is undergoing enormous change in both clinical and administrative operations. […]