Chicago Innovation Blog

Crain’s Chicago Business: Innovation is also Chicago’s game

by | Nov 17, 2016

On a night when everyone in Chicago seemed focused on baseball, the business community found time to cheer on innovation.

“I don’t know if you know it or not, but there’s a big event at about 7:08 p.m.,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the crowd at Harris Theater.

From startups, such as Page Vault, to some of the oldest names in business, such as Federal Signal, 24 companies won Chicago Innovation Awards. Among the presenters was Ed Wehmer, CEO of Wintrust Financial, a major Cubs sponsor….

Women Mentoring Women: Here’s Why It Matters

Women Mentoring Women: Here’s Why It Matters

"If it weren’t for women’s mentoring, I wouldn’t be where or who I am today." - former Chicago Innovation Women Mentoring Co-op mentee, Michelle Rivas, discusses the impact of having female mentors.

Patents Not Required to be an Innovation Powerhouse

Patents Not Required to be an Innovation Powerhouse

Letter to the Editor: Too often we see entrepreneurs invest too many resources in pursuing patents, when what they should be doing is investing their time and money on identifying and solving customers' unmet needs, write Tom Kuczmarski and Luke Tanen of Chicago...

Patents Not Required to be an Innovation Powerhouse

Chicago Innovation Awards spotlight internet of things and AI

Twenty companies, from startups to Fortune 500 giants, won Chicago Innovation Awards for new products and services that bring the "internet of things" to health care, vehicles and foods, as well as holograms that bring museum exhibits to life.