Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

Topics this week range from an discovery that could lead to new treatments for COVID-19 and other viral diseases to events in Oak Ridge, Knoxville, Nashville and Washington, DC.

Innovators and innovation enablers share the stories of their organizations within the book’s industry-specific chapters.

Bayh-Dole allows the government to assert march-in rights under prescribed circumstances, such as if the patent owner is not taking steps to achieve practical application of the invention or is not reasonably satisfying regulatory requirements for public use.

Writerly offers more than 50 customizable templates and business suites for uses ranging from marketing, advertising, sales enablement, social media, eCommerce, and research.

A product of the Southern Conference’s Academic Exchange program, the event is a pitch competition designed to showcase students with an idea for an innovative business or nonprofit organization. The competition features two tracks — for-profit and nonprofit.

The VC Exit Predictor was trained on 46,000 observations from start-ups with known outcomes that was followed by testing the algorithm on more than 11,000 out-of-sample observations.

Crunchbase News reports that Series A funding has dropped for five consecutive quarters and is on target to do so when Q1 2023 results are reported.

The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is one of five finalists for the "Triple E Awards: Entrepreneurship and Engagement Excellence in Higher Education." Winners will be announced in June.