Since 2012, Chicago has built an estimated 1.5 million square feet of coworking spaces, and about 80 or 90 incubators and accelerators. By any reasonable measure of success, this massive effort has not translated into a competitive market for advanced industries. Chicago has not grown its share of the national venture capital market, and we have not brought more national investment into the region for the purposes of advancing technology. More significantly, Chicago has not kept pace with changes in our industrial economy. Continue reading “Chicago’s Potemkin Village: Why our innovation economy has failed, and how to fix it”

Our Artist in Residence, Aaron Freeman, discusses the eclipse with Fermi Lab physicist Bill Higgins.

Hear what students and professors alike have to say about what needs to be done to progress the sciences.

Most of us have been to natural history museums–toured the exhibits, pored over collections of bugs and bones–but who decides what goes on display? How did it all end up there? And what exactly does a curator do?

Aaron interviews WTTW’s Chicago Tonight ace correspondent Elizabeth Brackett on the Army Corps latest plans to stop the asian carp invasion. Watch on our Facebook page here.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Chicago Council on Science and Technology, and the Illinois Science Council host Lawrence Krauss at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago. He discusses his newest book, The Greatest Story Ever Told — So Far. In his book, Krauss turns to key scientific discoveries to shed light on our fundamental understanding of space, time, and Origins.