(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first article in a two-part series focused on Carmen Bigles and her plans to build the nation’s first facility to produce medical radioisotopes in Oak Ridge.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Carmen Bigles is not a household name to many of our readers,

Fred Martin, a Knoxville resident and registered Patent Agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, will be the featured speaker this Saturday at the monthly meeting of the Tennessee Inventors Association. The event starts at 10 a.m. at Lincoln Memorial University’s West Knoxville campus, 421 Park 40 North Boulevard.

If you are in or near Memphis in mid-August, you might want to attend the Memphis “Summer of Acceleration Demo Day.” It is set for 3:30 to 5 p.m. August 15 at the Halloran Centre, 225 West Main Street (registration link here) with a reception to follow at Catherine &

A North Carolina State University graduate has launched a start-up focused on helping those who manage co-working spaces, describing it as “kind of a one-stop shop solution for handling all the different components that make up a co-working space.” Click here to read more about the company named, appropriately enough,

Nine Tennessee-based start-ups, including five that we have spotlighted recently on tedknovation.biz, have been announced as finalists for the “Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) Pitch Competition” that will be held as part of next month’s “36|86 Entrepreneurship Festival.” The event, set to start at 1 p.m. CDT August 29 at Ole Red

The Mayors of Chattanooga and Hamilton County are helping the community welcome the new President and Chief Executive Officer of The Enterprise Center at a reception tomorrow evening. The event to introduce Deb Socia runs from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the fifth floor of The Edney Innovation Center, 1100 Market

Want to give the Ts117 co-working space in Oak Ridge a try? Rick Chinn of R&R Properties, the developer, tells us his firm has arranged a special way for you to do so. It’s called “Five Dollar Fridays.” For that amount, you can spend a day at the newly renovated

You regularly hear about the cost of living advantage our region has over tech-based communities like San Francisco. Here’s just one more example. According to this recent article, California-based PodShare is providing a sleeping alternative that is $2,400 cheaper per month than the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in

Good news for the region, its farmers and an investment the State of Tennessee made a decade ago. Genera, a Tennessee-based biomass solutions company, announced this week that it has secured more than $118 million in new investment for its first manufacturing facility that will produce its Earthable® line of

It’s Friday and, if you are a member of the East Tennessee Economic Council, chances are you are sitting in the meeting room where there’s an informative speaker or two every week at 7:30 a.m. and a great chance to network. Last week was no exception as Tom Drye, Techmer