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
- To help you answer questions about COVID-19, we’ve repurposed content from the Maine CDC to make easy decision-making tools that any organization can use to help employers, employees, and their families break the chain of transmission.Today graduate students from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business were named winners of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s fifth annual MBA Case Competition.As we transition from September’s National Recovery Month to Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 3–9), it is important to remember that the need for recovery is not limited to certain occupations, communities, races, genders, or conditions. Your employees can encounter any number of life-altering experiences from which they struggle to rebound.Why is fighting the flu important for every business and every employee? In addition to keeping your team healthy and working, flu season is once again colliding with the COVID-19 pandemic this year. Business owners and leaders play a vital role in encouraging employees to get the flu vaccine.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and Pittsburgh-based tech startup RoadBotics today released a new study, which used artificial intelligence (AI) to assess roadway conditions in 20 of the nation’s major metropolitan areas.As millions of Americans are preparing to return to offices and downtown business districts since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation partnered with RoadBotics to assess roadway conditions in 20 of the nation’s major metropolitan areas.
