We’re back with a shortened Saturday edition of teknovation.biz with a featured post that could stimulate conversation and debate among many of our readers and other leaders in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. It all relates to StartupBlink’s third annual “Global Rankings Report” that, among other things, uncovers the trends of innovation throughout 1,000

Life Science Tennessee’s latest “Beer & Biotech” meet-up was not only a virtual statewide gathering, but it also had an international flavor courtesy of one of the three panelists. The late Thursday afternoon event featured a continuation of the spotlight started at the April meet-up on ways that Tennessee-connected assets

The headline said it all – “The Maker Space Is Back in Business.” It was part of an email this week from Roane State Community College’s Crossville campus announcing that the facility is part of the Cumberland Business Incubator is open with certain restrictions. They include: A maximum of five

We continue to check-in periodically with James Horey, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Reviewbox, a slightly more than four-year old local start-up in the business intelligence and analytics space. Our most recent post occurred at the end of March when Horey said that he saw a silver lining in

The East Tennessee Economic Council’s latest “After Hours” event late Wednesday afternoon provided some very useful insights on how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted cybersecurity, both now and going forward. The speaker was John McNeely, Senior Vice President of Avertium and one of the Founders of Sword & Shield Enterprise

In less than a month, the Innov865 Alliance will host a webinar featuring new Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon. The event will begin at 10:30 a.m. June 24, and you can pre-register now at this link. PYA, the power behind teknovation.biz, is one of the founding members of the Alliance.

Mary Beth West, Senior Strategist at Fletcher Marketing PR in Knoxville, has been named as one of 18 members of the new Global Ethics Council of the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA). The new group, comprised of members from throughout the world, is chaired by David Gallagher, International President

A large regional event staffing company in Charlotte has elected to use a new health status app to help its employees return to work safely. Called “Evident Health Status” and just rolled-out recently, the app is fully encrypted and requires user consent to protect employee privacy and serves three main

An idea that has been widely rumored in the Knoxville-Oak Ridge entrepreneurial ecosystem for at least a year is now officially launched with an announcement yesterday. The public unveiling of “The Innovation Ecosystem Assessment for the Greater Knoxville Metropolitan Area” came via an email co-signed by the top executives at

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another in a series of articles focused on the history of the Tennessee Valley Corridor and its series of Summits. This is the final article based on a recent conversation with Darrell Akins and John Crisp. Twenty-five years after the inaugural event in Oak Ridge, the