Category: Accelerators
Impact Investing: Realizing Economic Growth and Social Progress Through Entrepreneurship
By Jessica Droste Yagan, Chief Executive Officer, Impact Engine Two years ago, Impact Engine’s Chairman, Chuck Templeton, addressed the ISTC community and shared his vision of a great ecosystem of impact investing emerging in Illinois. Today, it’s safe to say that this vision is becoming a reality. Businesses and investors alike are demonstrating that financial […]
Illinois R&D driving industry: Illinois laboratories and industry partner to advance accelerator-based technologies
By Robert Kephart, Director, Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC), Fermilab, and Cherri J. Schmidt, Manager, Office of Partnerships and Technology Transfer, Fermilab Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), both located within 30 miles of Chicago, combine to give Northern Illinois the highest concentration of accelerator experts in the world. Accelerators are powerful machines that […]