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Thomas Day in Invent2026

Mar 23, 2017

Chicago’s Potemkin Village

America’s third-largest city has built a tech shrine. The capital hasn’t…

Thomas Day in Invent2026

Dec 18, 2017

The year ahead for Invent2026 (with lots of data, pictures, and videos)

The Christmas season is about family, giving, and appreciating that we’re even having a Christmas. Not everyone thought we would this time last year:

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Thomas Day in Invent2026

May 23, 2018

The Chicago tech returns fallacy

A thought experiment: If you invest $10 and watch it grow to $20 in value, you have earned a 100…

Thomas Day in Invent2026

Apr 11, 2017

It doesn’t take a Potemkin Village

There are two villages in Chicago. One is the Potemkin Village. The other is our village.

You are welcome in our village, but understand that in our village, we live by a set of norms:

Deal flow moves fast;

Thomas Day in Invent2026

Jun 29, 2017

Dayton, Ohio: A pilot program for integrating applied research with entrepreneurship

Dayton, Ohio, is not typically revered as a model for how to drive a regional startup economy. But it should be.

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Thomas Day in Invent2026

Oct 22, 2018

Welcoming Army Research Lab to town

Army Research Laboratory has recently opened a Midwest office at the University of Chicago, termed ARL Central, which is led by Dr. Mark Tschopp. ARL’s Chicago office is one of four “Open Campus” research sites — including locations in Los Angeles, Texas, and Boston…

Thomas Day in Invent2026

Apr 6, 2018

Chicago’s innovation community and where value grows from

This week the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC) produced what, in my judgement, should be viewed as an annual report card on Chicago’s innovation community. As they have every year since 2013, ISTC examined the…

Thomas Day in Invent2026

Dec 6, 2018

Chicago’s most important research project enters second half

In 1991, after decades of research across different continents, Sony introduced the first commercially available lithium-ion battery. With the risk, they found reward — lots of it. Sony, and with it Japan, quickly became the…

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Invent2026 is an initiative to design and develop new technologies and new products, from the lab all the way to the commercial market, in our nation’s Midwest “Rust Belt” region.

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