By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Anyone who knows Tommy Nguyen appreciates the fact that he is always upbeat with a big smile on his face. That smile might have been even bigger and brighter when we caught-up with the Co-Founder of StoragePug ahead of his presentation next week

LM Industries Inc., parent of Local Motors that has a facility on Pellissippi Parkway in West Knox County, has named a new President for the subsidiary. Vikrant Aggarwal, an executive with more than 20 years of experience, previously led a mobility-focused team at the Innovation Incubator at Cummins, Inc. developing

What are the most active venture firms in the healthcare space? If you ever wondered, here’s your answer. Topping the list is Alexandria Venture Investments.

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Life Science Tennessee’s (LST) “Scipreneur Challenge” is coming to East Tennessee this fall. Based on the TechVenture Challenge that was launched several years ago by Vanderbilt University’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization with support from LST, the program was expanded to Memphis

Kudos to Marcus Shaw, Jennifer Skjellum and the rest of the team at Chattanooga’s CO.LAB for making TechLink’s latest list of 23 top start-up accelerators around the country. That’s pretty impressive considering nine of the 23 are located in California and another eight call New York City, Boston or Washington,

Tennessee Tech University received a nearly $780,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project titled “Developing an EV Demonstration Testbed in the Upper Cumberland Region of Tennessee, an Economy Distressed Rural Region.” The project was the only one in Tennessee funded among 43 new and innovative advanced

No doubt you’ve heard of Tyson Foods and, for sure, you’ve probably eaten chicken from the company. How important is innovation to the 85-year old company? It just opened a two-story, 26,000 square-foot Manufacturing Automation Center facility that has four research areas including a machine vision technology lab and another

“I-Corps South is for anyone developing a technology which they want to build a company around,” Shawn Carson says. He’s the University of Tennessee’s (UT) Program Director for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-connected initiative that is now accepting applications (click here) for its regional cohort for this fall. The two-week program,

Kingsport-based Eastman announced last week that the specialty products company has extended its research agreements with North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina. The first agreement was executed in 2012 and, with the extensions, now run through 2025. The value of the one with North Carolina State

The latest newsletter from DigiTrax Entertainment, the Knoxville-based company, included an announcement of a new product series that showcases the company’s ability to quickly produce custom versions of hit songs. The product, named Jam Hits, provides tracks that are recordings of smash-hit tunes that have the guitar, drum, or bass