CME Group Center for Innovation

 
 
CME Group Center for Innovation

CME Group Center for Innovation

Innovation has always been a driving force for the exchanges that form CME Group: CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, and KCBT. We have continually embraced change and fostered an entrepreneurial spirit that has enabled both our exchanges – as well as the futures industry – to grow and prosper. We know from firsthand experience that innovation can transform business, influence the direction of civilization and alter its reality for the better.

But creative thinking and great ideas cannot exist in a vacuum – they benefit and gain momentum by being spread far and wide. Recognizing this, in 2003 CME founded the CME Center for Innovation – now called the CME Group Center for Innovation (CFI).

The CFI creates and sponsors thought-provoking original programming that identifies, showcases and fosters examples of significant innovation and creative thinking across multiple industries in both the public and private sectors. Each of the programs explores and communicates the principles behind innovation, and more importantly, showcases their application to a broad and diverse audience.

The CFI's programs help advance the application of innovation by providing a broad, multi-industry analysis of the concept. The CFI is interested in evaluating not only the principles behind innovation, but in taking a strong, hard look at innovation in action.

For further information about the CME Group Center for Innovation, please contact:
Colleen Lazar
Executive Director, CME Group Center for Innovation
colleen.lazar@cmegroup.com

Employee Innovation Program

Each year, the CME Group Center for Innovation also recognizes CME Group employees whose original thinking has led to developments in CME Group products, services and technology through its Employee Inventor Program. The program encourages CME employees to be innovative and to bring their ideas, particularly patentable ideas, to the company’s attention by awarding cash bonuses and other recognition to those employees who apply for and are issued U.S. patents. Innovations cover both new inventions implemented at CME and ideas we may someday implement, in areas such as technology, clearing operations, product development and market data services. The CFI is honored to recognize the strength of human capital and intellectual property at CME Group by conferring these awards.

CME Group employee inventors who have been recognized since the program’s inception represent nearly all divisions and a wide range of levels within the organizations. Over 100 CME Group employees have been named on at least one patent application of the four granted patents and 99 U.S. patent applications by CME Group.

Find out more about the 2012 CME Group Inventors.

 
 
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