Incubator
The world needs someone looking around the corner to recognize tomorrow’s solutions—today.
The Incubator is where the U.S. Chamber Foundation pilots bold ideas to tackle pressing challenges. We identify emerging issues, test innovative approaches, and help businesses and communities prepare for the future.
Innovation: Our Greatest Asset
Through our Innovation Model, we move ideas from concept to impact:
- Spot emerging challenges before they become crises
- Pilot bold solutions with partners across business, government, and communities
- Scale what works to create lasting change
Our focus areas are constantly changing, and we welcome ideas from partners. Sample topics include:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Nanotech
- Quantum Computing
- Pandemic Preparedness
- Bioterrorism and Biosecurity
- Misinformation
Spotlight
U.S. businesses operate in a world of evolving international policies and heightened geopolitical tension. Our analysis of corporate financial reports and earnings calls reveals accelerated concern.
This report provides a data-based assessment of how U.S. companies perceive geopolitical risk and articulates a recommended decision-making process and framework to manage such risk.
Programs
We foster dialogue and forge powerful public-private partnerships to address geopolitical threats. Our approach is a new way to mobilize whole-of-society solutions to whole-of-society problems.
Insights
- Emerging Issues
Justice Across Borders: How the Judicial Fellowship Program Is Building a Global Network of Rule-of-Law ChampionsThe Judicial Fellowship Program united 25 judges from 18 countries to share strategies for judicial independence, transparency, and rule of law. Organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the Presidential Precinct, the Fellowship is building a lasting alumni network to strengthen courts, democracy, and public trust worldwide.
By Melissa Mendizabal
- Emerging Issues
Integrating Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight
By Kelsey Margey - Emerging Issues
Winning the Race for Quantum Supremacy
By Kelsey Margey
- Emerging Issues
AI Judging AI: Top 4 AI Chatbots Evaluate Themselves
By Melissa Mendizabal
Legacy Programs
The Civic Trust® is a nonpartisan educational initiative dedicated to enhancing civic literacy, skills, and participation across schools, workplaces, and communities. Through programs like the National Civics Bee®, we partner with state and local chambers, businesses, policymakers, and community leaders to offer dynamic opportunities.
Launched in 2024, our two-week program offers an immersive professional exchange and residential learning opportunity for foreign judges and magistrates who are passionate about strengthening legal systems.
Latest Content
- Just like rules in a sport or board game, rule of law creates impartiality, predictability, and accountability. Together with the Presidential Precinct, we launched the Judicial Fellowship Program, a concerted effort to fight corruption and strengthen rule of law globally.Peer feedback is important, especially for our AI-powered colleagues. We had AI chatbots evaluate each other's responses to determine the capabilities and creative limits of the four most popular AI chatbots. By having the tools assess each other, we uncovered strengths, limits, and insights into their 'personalities,' biases, and self-awareness.Meet Moon Nguyen and Melissa Mendizabal, the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s first Innovation Scholars.In recognition of World Quantum Day, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, in partnership with the Boston Consulting Group, shares a high-level summary of significant findings from a war game conducted with U.S. public and private sector leaders.Innovation is at the core of the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s mission. In honor of Innovation Day on February 16th, Kelsey Margey, manager of strategy and innovation, shares a summary of the corporate trends shaping the landscape in 2024.In our annual impact report, you will see how we are translating our bold new vision into action by organizing around proven capabilities in civics and democracy, disaster resilience, education, and workforce.The world is facing a "polycrisis" of interconnected challenges, including economic instability, geopolitical tensions, and extreme weather.American companies constitute unparalleled strategic assets. Through pioneering R&D and commercialization, the genius of U.S. enterprise drives global innovation. Strength abroad requires nurturing strength at home. Policymakers must recognize business of all sizes as fundamental to national security and, according to Edelman’s Trust Barometer, stewards of public trust.
