The third installment of the CompTIA Tech Town Index® finds Austin, TX again claiming the top spot, Dallas coming in at #2, and Raleigh, NC in third place for the third year in a row. Charlotte ranks fifth, Atlanta places eight, Huntsville, AL is ranked ninth and Durham-Chapel Hill places

Massinvestor has announced the launch of its “Life Sciences VC & PE Database.” Described as the only resource of its kind, the database profiles nearly 2,000 venture capital firms and private equity firms, family offices, and angels investing at the vanguard of life sciences, healthcare and medical devices. Click here

A new partnership involving both the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and BioMADE, a non-profit organization, will support the design and operation of a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute located on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. The new space on campus will help grow the bioindustrial manufacturing

Kate O’Neill was an aspiring songwriter when she moved to Nashville where she lived for 12 years. Now a resident of New York City, she is the Founder and Chief Tech Humanist of KO Insights where she describes herself as “an author, keynote speaker, Fortune 500 advisor, and experience strategy expert

The Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) has announced the launch of the new “Made for Knoxville” campaign to elevate awareness of Knoxville’s diverse entrepreneurial ecosystem. The goal is to connect and empower the diverse entrepreneurial community in the Knoxville region – ranging from “solo-preneurs” to makers, growth stage tech companies, investors,

The annual “Opportunities in Energy” forum hosted by the Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council (TAEBC) is set for the afternoon of December 8. Normally held in Knoxville as an in-person event, this year’s discussion will be virtual. The focus will be two-fold: (1) making Tennessee a destination for the electric vehicle

The Pellissippi State Community College Media Technologies program continues its webinar series on “The Art Science and Impact of Digital Storytelling” with a new Zoom session from 12:30 to 2 p.m. December 1. The upcoming session, titled “Building Greater Knoxville’s National Reputation as a Creative Community,” will focus on the

In the words of Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) held its first-ever “Awards Morning” on Friday where it celebrated the accomplishments of lab scientists and others with the annual “Director’s Awards.” Friday’s livestreamed ceremony, captured in this video, concluded a two-week period in which category winners were announced

During a session held as part of last week’s “Startup of the Year” event, Tim Draper, a legendary Venture Capitalist, offered a new way to describe a fundamental principle that should be embraced by any entrepreneur. He attributed the words to two different individuals who, during separate conversations, shared the

Technology is your friend sometimes and, on other occasions, it’s not. In the case of yesterday’s sixth edition of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s (EC) “Pitch for Good” series, it was, then it wasn’t and finally it was again. Like the very philosophy that the EC espouses to its entrepreneurs, the