Chain Reaction Innovations Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (CRI Fellowship)

Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) is Argonne National Laboratory’s lab-embedded entrepreneurship program that awards two-year fellowships to early-stage founders developing energy and science technologies. Fellows embed full time at Argonne, partner with host scientists, and gain access to research facilities, technical expertise and commercialization support. The program aims to de-risk emerging technologies, accelerate commercialization and build companies that create economic and societal impact.

Two-year fellowship; full-time embedding at Argonne; partnership with host scientists; access to Argonne research facilities, technical expertise and commercialization support.

Early-stage founders working on energy and science technologies.

National application process followed by a two-stage pitch competition evaluated by investors, entrepreneurs, scientists and researchers.