Featured Client: Battelle
Pictured to the
left, is Battelle's Research Advisory Board (BRAB). This photo was
taken on an April, 2002 visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is managed
by Battelle in partnership with the University of Tennessee for the US
Department of Energy. Reid Watts of Progeny
Ventures is a member
of Battelle's BRAB.
Battelle develops new technologies, commercializes products, and
provides solutions for industry and government through contract research.
Battelle also operates three of the other US National Laboratories
(Brookhaven, Pacific Northwest, and the National Renewable Energy Lab) under
contract with
the US Department of Energy. Battelle is the largest contract research firm in
the US. One of its most famous spinouts is the Xerox corporation.
Progeny Ventures works with corporate clients like Battelle to help commercialize
information technology inventions via spinouts. Some of these
relationships are confidential, at the client's request.