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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (IEC) helps connect emerging clean energy businesses with the financial community, NREL technical expertise and facilities, and the broader clean energy ecosystem.
This website serves as the application and data-collection portal for the following programs, which are administered by the IEC.
 | Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) By bridging the gap between cutting-edge startups and market adopters, IN2 accelerates real-world implementation and scaling of transformative technologies in the built environment and infrastructure sectors. |
 | Shell Gamechanger Powered by NREL (GCxN) The GCxN provides promising cleantech start-ups with access to financial resources, state-of-the-art facilities, and world-class technical experts. |
 | Chevron Studio Chevron Studio is a one-of-a-kind program designed to help entrepreneurs build companies by linking them with world-class, early-stage technologies developed at national labs and universities. The program provides assistance to entrepreneurs to help them scale-up and commercialize these technologies. |
 | West GateThe West Gate Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program offers promising entrepreneurs a career-changing opportunity to access NREL's expertise and capabilities to speed the development of their startup's core technologies. |
 | Energy I-Corps Energy I-Corps is a key initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Technology Commercialization, which sends teams of researchers and industry mentors through an immersive two-month training where the researchers define technology value propositions, conduct stakeholder discovery interviews, and develop viable market pathways for their technologies. |
 | Industry Growth ForumThe Industry Growth Forum is a premier event for technology collaboration and advancement. Drawing on three decades of experience, it features pitch competitions for entrepreneurs and provides one-on-one networking to connect investors and innovators. |