Innovation

A scientific breakthrough is only the beginning of delivering transformative solutions. Achieving real-world impact beyond the lab is translating discoveries into new technology and bringing them to market. The University of Chicago brings together the power of two U.S. Department of Energy National Labs and the Marine Biological Laboratory, world-class facilities at dozens of labs, institutes, and centers across campus, along with the business and entrepreneurial expertise of the Booth School of Business and support from the world-renowned Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to transform ideas and discoveries into new products, services and ventures.

Our Innovation Ecosystem

Event at Polsky Center

Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

An incubator of bold new ideas, combining breakthrough research from UChicago faculty and their partners with world-class expertise from the Booth School of Business to bring vital, world-changing products to market.

A photo illustration of a prospective lab space in the Hyde Park Labs building.

Hyde Park Labs

Slated to open in Q2 of 2025, this new facility will provide startups, researchers, and industrial developers with 20,000 square feet of wet lab and office space where they can innovate and accelerate the development of new discoveries and intellectual property.

Featured Innovation News

Data Science Insititute at UChicago

The University of Chicago Data Science Institute and Google partner on cutting-edge AI and security research

A closeup of a gloved hand holding a battery in the shape of a flat disc

UChicago scientists are designing next-gen batteries without “forever chemicals”

Gloved hands holding a foot-wide round computer wafer

Fermilab leads project to develop novel quantum sensor