Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

The Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) has named the five finalists for what has to be the most innovative format for the annual “What’s the Big Idea?” event. Due to COVID-19…

Successfully growing a start-up via what is frequently referred to as “America’s Seed Fund” was the focus of last Thursday evening’s monthly gathering of the Knoxville Chapter of BioTN’s Academic…

At the beginning of 2019, Cubic Corporation acquired Knoxville-based GRIDSMART Technologies Inc., a 12-year old company co-founded by Vig Sherrill and Bill Malkes that operated in the intelligent transportation sector….

The application deadline for the “2021 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Awards” has been extended until this Friday. Any individual, business, organization, educational institution, or agency is eligible, provided it is located…

There’s a little more than three weeks left for student teams from two-year institutions to apply for “Community College Innovation Challenge” led by the American Association of Community Colleges in…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA A Tennessee native who left the state in October 2019 for a position with the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is returning to…

By Kailyn Lamb, Marketing Content Writer and Editor, PYA The Knoxville Chamber of Commerce ended “Women’s History Month” on March 31 with a panel on Women in Business. The panel…

Starting next week, the U.S. Small Business Administration is raising the loan limit for the COVID-19 “Economic Injury Disaster Loans” (EIDL) program from six months of economic injury with a…