(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the concluding article in a series focused on the history of the Tennessee Valley Corridor and its series of Summits. Twenty-five years after the inaugural event in Oak Ridge, the silver anniversary Summit will be a five-part series of 90-minute virtual sessions kicking-off this Thursday {July

As noted in today’s feature article with Third District U.S. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann, the first of five weekly sessions under the “TVC Virtual Summit Series” starts in three days (Thursday, July 16). The theme of all five sessions is “Twenty-five Years of Innovation Transforming a Region,” paying tribute to the

The Nashville Entrepreneur Center is hosting another “Pitch for Good” event, this time focused on Black founders. Six entrepreneurs will be selected from those who apply by the deadline of 11:59 p.m. CDT this Thursday (July 16). Here’s a link to the application, and there are two categories – one

Crunchbase reported last week that global venture funding for the second quarter of 2020 was not as dire as we expected, despite the turmoil of an ongoing pandemic, but it was down from previous years. Overall, total global venture dollars for 2020 in all stages – from seed, venture, corporate venture

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced late last week that it was awarding “CARES Act Recovery Assistance” grants to several Tennessee entities. On Friday, Tennessee Technological University (TTU) in Cookeville was awarded $300,000 to boost its capacity to support regional economic development strategies in response to

The wait is almost over. If everything adheres to the schedule, the newest location of Nashville-based e|spaces will open at the first of August in a new, three-story building in the Western Plaza Center in Knoxville’s Bearden community. The official address is 4315 Kingston Pike. It will be the city’s

As anyone involved in technology commercialization knows, converting an invention into a commercial license with an industry partner usually doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, in can take years to move from an initial discovery to a product in the marketplace. In this recent article in the latest issue of the

Microsoft Corporation announced last week that Atlanta will be home to the first of its “Accelerate” programs, a new initiative “designed to address economic recovery through both skilling underserved communities and re-skilling the many Americans impacted by COVID-19.” The goal of the global effort is to help 25 million people

Give the Gators credit. For the third time, the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) has awarded its highest honor – the “Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year” award – to UF Innovate|Sid Martin Biotech. Described as one of the most experienced bio-business incubators in the nation, the 40,000-square foot

Two of the nine  projects funded by the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmacueticals (NIIMBL) to help address the COVID-19 pandemic have gone to North Carolina State University (NCSU). NIIMBL allocated approximately $8.9 million from a grant it received from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards