When you’re hot, you have only three directions to go – get hotter, stay as warm as you have been, or start cooling-off. It looks like Music City is still on its upward trajectory. According to this report in the Tennessee Lookout, a fairly new addition to the state’s online media

In the clearest sign that the federal government moves on even on Inauguration Day, the U.S. Department of Energy announced yesterday announced that it is partnering with Youngstown State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance workforce development for the battery manufacturing industry. The one million dollar project will

Apple and the Southern Company are both investing $25 million in The Propel Center in Atlanta. Started by Birmingham-based Ed Farm, the program will focus on building tech talent within the country’s 100 plus Historically Black Colleges and Universities by offering in-person and online courses in technology and business. The

Techstars, the worldwide network helping entrepreneurs succeed and the organization that just released its assessment of the Knoxville region’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem, has a new Chief Executive Officer. Maëlle Gavet, a former Principal at the Boston Consulting Group and later Executive Vice President of Operations of the Priceline Group,

Roughly a decade after relocating from Colorado to Greenville, SC, Proterra, a leading commercial electric vehicle technology company, is going public. The announcement was made last week by VentureSouth, also based in Greenville and the entity that joined with the Upstate Carolina Angel Network and SCRA to provide bridge funding

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA It is still a very early stage company, having been launched in mid-2020, but Sentinel Devices LLC has big plans to address a very critical cybersecurity vulnerability in industrial control systems. The issue is insider attacks, frequently accomplished by an advanced persistent threat

Tilke Engineers & Architects, recognized as one of the most experienced companies when it comes to planning and construction management within the automotive industry and motorsports sector, is under contract to help develop the proposed Oak Ridge Motorsports Park. Rusty Bittle, Founding Partner of the group developing the project, engaged

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division announced last week that it had completed its review of a proposed joint patent licensing pool known as the “University Technology Licensing Program” (UTLP). Under the initiative, 15 participating universities will be able to cooperate in licensing certain complementary patents through UTLP which

The University of Arkansas’ Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced a five virtual workshop series for students who are interested in the innovation process or who have ideas for new products, services, and businesses. According to this flyer, a total of 21 workshops are scheduled in one of five

Main Street Ventures, a mainstay of Cincinnati’s tech scene, is launching a new grant program to boost the region’s early stage start-ups and entrepreneurs. At the beginning of 2021, the firm began collecting applications for its new “Launch Grants” to provide funding for businesses at either the prototype or product