(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth article in a multi-part series focused on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), truly one of the Knoxville-Oak Ridge region’s greatest technology and innovation assets. In this post, the focus is on a partnership that involves Magnum Venus Products Inc., a company

The Knoxville-based Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, better known as IACMI, is concluding its 2020 Winter Meeting today in Dayton, OH. Ahead of the event, the organization released a video annual report along a narrative version of the highlights. The 2019 highpoints include: IACMI led a project with Volkswagen,

Atlanta Inno reports that legendary Angel Investor Sig Mosley has a new gig. According to the report, he’s joining Zane Venture Fund, a $10 million initiative created to support founders who are women and people of color. Mosley, who will be a Partner, led the largest venture deal in the

What’s is viewed by FitSmallBusiness as the best state for female entrepreneurs? It is Colorado which jumped from its 2019 ranking as number 21. Where does Tennessee rank? Click here for the answer.

Just three months after Techstars and Alabama Power announced the launch of the “Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator” located in Birmingham, there’s another rebranded energy-focused accelerator that has been announced “way up north.” As noted in this news release, the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund is giving its Acel-VT a face lift

Can you believe it? Today begins the ninth year of waking you up about 6 a.m. Eastern time every workday with that familiar ding, unless you silenced your phone, that announces the arrival of the daily teknovation.biz newsletter via email. We launched January 23, 2012 with the hope that there

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a multi-part series focused on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility {MDF} at Oak Ridge National Laboratory {ORNL}, truly one of the Knoxville-Oak Ridge region’s greatest technology and innovation assets The first three articles examine the MDF from the perspective of

Great news for two support organizations for start-ups in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. American Underground (AU), the Durham-based start-up and entrepreneurial hub,  is more than holding its own after a year of internal changes and mounting competition from rival co-working spaces, according to figures released in its

Three individuals, including two who are Partners in venture capital firms, have published an intriguing article in the Harvard Business Review. Their research – involving interviews with more than a dozen venture capitalists in the U.S., Canada, UK, and Singapore – is actively exploring how venture firms could realistically dispose

Hypepotamus reports that Comcast NBCUniversal is launching SportsTech, a three-month global accelerator for multi-stage sports technology start-ups. The accelerator, which will be based in Atlanta, features what Comcast NBCUniversal calls an “unprecedented partnership” between three of the broadcast giant’s sports brands – NBC Sports, Sky Sports and Golf Channel, as well as