Research Park

Startup Institute Chicago ?

Startup Institute Chicago Works with professionals, career changers, and dynamic individuals to equip them with the skills needed to have an immediate impact on the startup company they join. Our primary objective is to align passion with profession, and usher students into a life they love. Our program is a full-time, immersive, two month experience that will catapult you into Chicago's technology ecosystem in the areas of web development, product and design, technical marketing,sales and...

Chicago, IL

http://www.**icago.startupinstitute.com/

University Technology Park at IIT ?

Illinois Institute of Technology

The University Technology Park at IIT (UTP) is Illinois’ and Chicago’s premier location for established and start-up technology companies to grow and thrive. UTP is more than just a space to work. The high-tech companies at UTP benefit from unparalleled access to like-minded entrepreneurs and researchers, IIT’s high-caliber student work force, funding assistance and the full range of sophisticated equipment and instrumentation on IIT’s campus including business services ...

3440 South Dearborn Street

Suite #212S

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-567-***

Contact：Daniel F. Marselle

Email：marselle**[ta]**.edu

http://www.**iversitytechnologypark.com/

VentureLab ?

VentureLab brings together the essential elements to help entrepreneurs succeed. Our experience is in forming, capitalizing and building early-stage companies. We divide our services into four elemental categories：Strategy, Capital, Team and Customers. We help our clients turn their vision into an actionable plan; access the capital they need; build out their management team, advisory board and BOD, and form strategic alliances.

2100 Sanders Rd

Suite***

Northbrook, IL 6***

Phone：312.953.***

Contact：Laurence Hayward

Email：lkh**[ta]**venturelab.com

Http://www.**eventurelab.com

Enterprise Works Chicago ?

University of Illinois

Enterprise Works Chicago is a new initiative of the Univeristy of Ilinois system to provide access to resources and support to inventors and entrepreneurs commercializing technology through company formation. With a public launch in April 2013 for applicant intake, EWC will be fully operational in early summer 2013. Programming will include commercialization roadmapping assistance, cost shared access to professional services, SBIR/STTR grant writing assistance, dedicated and shared office and wet...

2201 West Campbell Park Drive

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-829-***

Contact：Kapila Viges

Email：viges**[ta]**linois.edu

http://www.**terpriseworkschicago.com/

Enterprise Works Incubator ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

East Central Illinois University Center

Enterprise Works is the Research Park’s 43,000-square-foot business incubator for early-stage tech firms. It is operated by the University of Illinois to help launch successful startup companies. The 30-plus startups that occupy the office suites and labs at Enterprise Works showcase the potential of innovation in our community. Most, but not all, have a connection to the University. Some have been founded by staff, students,faculty, while others have licensed technology from the UI. Ow...

60 Hazelwood Drive

Champaign, IL 6***

Phone：217-333-***

Contact：Laura Frerichs

Email：lfrerich**[ta]**inois.edu

http://www.**searchpark.illinois.edu/enterpriseworks

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Enterprise Works Incubator

The Research Park created an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program that hires local experienced technology entrepreneurs to provide monthly consulting to new startup ventures and prospective technology entrepreneurs. By sourcing this talent from the local region, the program selects peers that have faced similar challenges in commercializing research/early stage technology and are able to provide advice on their own path to successfully attracting investment, revenue, and industrial clients. T...

60 Hazelwood Drive

Champaign, IL 6***

Phone：217-333-***

Contact：Laura Frerichs

Email：lfrerich**[ta]**inois.edu

http://www.**searchpark.illinois.edu/resources/entrepreneur-residence-program

Entrepreneurship Law Center ?

Northwestern University

The Entrepreneurship Law Center, part of Northwestern University School of Law's Bluhm Clinic, is a non-profit, student-based, clinical program that provides intensive, hands-on training for students who want to be transactional lawyers

founders of start-up companies. Under the supervision of clinical faculty and staff, law and business students work together to represent start-up companies, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations. Although its principal purpose is to train students for le...

Northwestern University School of Law

750 North Lake Shore Drive

8th Floor

Chicago, IL 60611-***

Phone：312-503-***

http://www.**w.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/elc/

Erickson Law Group, PC ?

The Erickson Law Group, PC provides legal services to protect our client’s intellectual property. Each of our attorneys is a Patent Attorney admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We serve clients ranging in size from large companies to startup companies to individual inventors. Our intellectual property services include：Patents Trademarks and Unfair Competition Cybersquatting & internet domain name disputes Copyrights Trade Secrets I***

1749 S. Naperville Rd.

Suite***

Wheaton, IL 6***

Phone：630.665.***

Contact：Eric Waltmire

Email：eric**[ta]**cksonlawgroup.com

Http://www.**icksonlawgroup.com

FireStarter ?

We are a group of Chicago founders who have come together to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. We all have direct experience founding, operating and investing in digital technology based businesses that leverage the developments of the past forty years. We owe a debt to the innovators who came before us and it is a debt we intend to repay by helping to fund promising new ideas and the entrepreneurs who have the passion and the drive to see their ideas become reality.

http://www.**restarterfund.com/

Foley & Lardner LLP ?

One of Foley’s largest offices, our Chicago location has expanded to more than 140 attorneys who serve a broad range of clients based in Chicago and beyond, including prominent Chicago corporations and institutions, multinational and local companies, and financial and banking institutions. In the summer of 2011, Foley Partner Christopher Cain and Senior Counsel Galen Mason recognized that a new market was developing in Chicago, and that Foley was not only in a position to differentiate and es...

321 North Clark Street

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 60654-***

Phone：312-832-***

http://www.**ley.com/chicago/

Freeborn & Peters LLP ?

Illinois Technology Association (ITA)

Andrew L. Goldstein focuses his practice in the area of Intellectual Property and Information Technology. He has extensive experience in the areas of intellectual property law, including trademark, trade dress and copyright law; internet, website, cloud computing, technology, outsourcing and computer law in general; advertising, marketing, and promotion law; and entertainment law, including video production, theater and dance-related matters. The Chambers-USA Guide to America’s Leadi***

311 S. Wacker Drive***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-360-***

Contact：Andrew L. Goldstein

Email：agoldstein**[ta]**eborn.com

Http://www.**eeborn.com

Freeborn & Peters LLP

I-Start program ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The I-Start Entrepreneur Assistance Program is a matching award program targeted to University of Illinois researchers that have a strong potential for technology commercialization through new company formation. I-Start offers a suite of first-year professional services startup services for new University of Illinois entrepreneurs including business development, legal setup, SBIR application, bookkeeping assistance, and marketing assistance. Enterprise Works has referrals to providers that can of...

60 Hazelwood Drive

Champaign, IL 6***

http://www.**searchpark.illinois.edu/resources/i-start-professional-service-assistance

Innovation and New Ventures Office ?

Northwestern University

The Innovation and New Ventures Office inspires and nurtures a culture of innovation, bridging Northwestern research with its practical use for public benefit. We scout for research that could have commercialization potential and provide guidance on how to maximize the impact of the innovations to society. Business development activities at INVO coordinate with entrepreneurial and innovation initiatives across all schools within Northwestern. Our goal is to enhance the value and impact of the in...

1800 Sherman Ave.

Suite***

Evanston, IL 6***

Phone：847-467-***

Contact：Alicia Loffler

Email：a-loffler**[ta]**thwestern.edu

http://www.**vo.northwestern.edu/

Knapp Entrepreneurship Center ?

Illinois Institute of Technology

The mission of the IIT-Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is to be Chicago’s leading professional support services center for IIT-related entrepreneurs by providing effective, affordable, and expert resources to help create and grow successful commercial ventures. IIT-KEC is a collaborative community of supporters of entrepreneurial ventures. The Knapp Center was designed to support a swift and significant expansion of entrepreneurial activity at and around IIT.

10 West 35th Street

13th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-567-***

Contact：Nik Rokop

Email：nrokop**[ta]**art.iit.edu

http://www.**uart.iit.edu/entrepreneurship_academy/knapp_center/

Law Office of Lesley A. Wallerstein, LLC ?

Patent & Trademark Attorney, Idea Counsel

When you’re ready to grow your idea into something bigger, you need a law firm that understands the business of invention. More than just getting you a patent, trademark

copyright, Lesley Wallerstein is your startup’s idea counsel. Educated at MIT and trained at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, I have the technical and legal skills to get the job done right. Flat fees for most services mean no hidden costs and no counting minutes on the clock when you need advice. Free r...

500 Lake Cook Road

Suite***

Deerfield, IL 6***

Phone：847912***

Contact：Lesley Wallerstein

Email：law**[ta]**lerstein-ip.com

Http://www.**llerstein-ip.com