By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Two weeks and one hour after the town hall where the Techstars assessment of the Knoxville region’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem was unveiled, a second event was held launching an initiative to address one of the significant glaring deficiencies that Techstars identified. That

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Have you ever thought about the challenges involved in the handling or disposal of toilet system waste at the International Space Station? Well, quite frankly, we had not either until an interview for this article, but we quickly learned that it is a

Students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) are back in class, so the Spring edition of the “Vol Court Speaker Series and Pitch Competition” cannot be far behind. In fact, the twice-a-year program begins February 2 and will continue for the next four Tuesdays with the March 2 event

ParagonLabs, powered by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), is hosting a workplace tech search for the most pioneering, groundbreaking, original ideas that will reinvent how everyone does work. The three-round competition starts at the local level next month, then moves to regional rounds in April and May with

Mercom Capital Group reports that digital health companies raised a record $14.8 billion in venture capital funding during 2020. Top funded categories were telemedicine, data analytics, mobile health apps, and clinical decision support which together secured 60 percent ($8.6 billion) of the total amount, receiving more than one billion dollars

The South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) reported that its impact on the State of South Carolina was nearly one billion dollars in 2020. According to an announcement last week, SCRA annually calculates its economic variables such as jobs supported, salaries, grant funding, and investments made, then works with the University

By Kailyn Lamb, Marketing Content Writer and Editor, PYA Applications are now open for 100Knoxville, a new initiative set to improve revenue and resources for the city’s Black-owned businesses. The launch was announced during a webinar yesterday morning. Following in the footsteps of the 800 Initiative from Memphis, which launched

The Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Chattanooga Department of Transportation have announced another project to take advantage of the city’s “MLK Smart Corridor.” Under the new initiative, the two organizations are partnering with Seoul Robotics and Ouster to make

When you’re hot, you have only three directions to go – get hotter, stay as warm as you have been, or start cooling-off. It looks like Music City is still on its upward trajectory. According to this report in the Tennessee Lookout, a fairly new addition to the state’s online media

In the clearest sign that the federal government moves on even on Inauguration Day, the U.S. Department of Energy announced yesterday announced that it is partnering with Youngstown State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance workforce development for the battery manufacturing industry. The one million dollar project will