It’s about time. Knoxville’s annual “Innov865 Week” kicks-off Monday with a Facebook Live talk from Randy Boyd, President of the University of Tennessee, and culminates in the Friday awards ceremony where the winners of “Startup Day” will be announced. The finale at the end of the week will also feature

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $1.89 million grant to a consortium coordinated by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) to create a new model for traffic intersections that reduces energy consumption. UTC’s Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) will lead the group that will leverage its

I doubt that Truist is a household name in your vocabulary yet, but it is the name that came out of the merger of banking giants BB&T and SunTrust. As part of the merger, Truist Ventures was created as the successor to a BB&T effort to invest in budding financial

Research shows that in many types of sequential competitions, the order of competitors can have a significant effect on judges’ evaluations. In some music and sports competitions, for example, competitors who go last have an advantage, while in sales or persuasive argumentation, studies have shown that going first is advantageous. What effect does competitor order have for start-up pitch contests? Three faculty

Collaboration across the ecosystem is the name of the game with a Detroit area initiative focused on attracting more start-ups to the region. The Automation Alley Industry 4.0 Accelerator, powered by Lawrence Technological University’s Centrepolis Accelerator and the Lean Rocket Lab, has expanded its corporate partnerships to include more Michigan-based

Feel Zoomed-out, so to speak? If so, a start-up with ties to Georgia Institute of Technology might have the solution you are seeking. Gatherly is rethinking the very structure of virtual conferences and just might be the answer to those fighting Zoom fatigue during endless video calls. Moving away from

Additional details, including an updated name, have been announced for the former TVA Federal Credit Union Building in downtown Knoxville where Cocoon Resources Inc. will locate its corporate headquarters and also the home for the BreathKeysTM brand of Volatile Analysis Corporation, one of its portfolio companies. In a conversation earlier

Roughly five years after the State of Wisconsin created the Badger Fund of Funds with $25 million and a goal of investing in start-up companies, it has committed an unspecified amount to a new initiative. The Winnow Fund, a seed stage venture capital fund, has raised $6 million, partly from

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) has issued the 13th annual call for proposals under its “Maturation Grant Program” with the opportunity to win up to $15,000. The UTRF program is open to researchers, faculty, staff and students across all UT campuses and institutes. It is designed to assist

Are you planning an airplane trip in the near term? Many people are not, and that’s a problem for airlines. Where challenges exist, entrepreneurial opportunity abounds. A consortium of Research Triangle partners that includes four universities, the local airport authority, and Research Triangle Institute have joined together to sponsor an