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Open Innovation Challenge

Open Innovation Challenge

Cohorts of lab and university innovators will engage with “host” industry partners to address manufacturing challenges.

The Open Innovation Challenge is a unique opportunity for innovators and manufacturers to come together to address challenges posed by select host companies. C4 will recruit cohorts of lab and local industry innovators to agree upon a challenge question that they believe can be solved by leveraging C4’s materials synthesis and discovery, additive, and advanced manufacturing capabilities within a six-month period. Each team will develop a prototype pop-up workflow or solution.

Cohort 1 concluded in 2024. Cohorts 2, 3, and 4 are currently in progress. More information coming soon.