It was part of a $33.5 million announcement of recipients of grants under the Appalachian Regional Commission's ARISE program.

Volunteer State is authorized to operate four programs - a loan participation program and three venture capital programs with Launch Tennessee responsible for $70 million of the $116.9 million approved.

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA One of the entrepreneurial focus areas in the Appalachian Highlands region is what many refer to as the creative class, and we recently…

The State Science and Technology Institute, better known as SSTI, summarized the impact of the $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan Act” on innovation in this recent post. Of particular note…

PYA President and CEO Marty Brown will step down from ownership at the end of 2026, after leading the firm for a decade. The owners of the firm unanimously voted David McMillan as Brown’s successor.

The goal is to reshape 40 underutilized acres on the campus’s western edge into a mixed-use, pedestrian-first hub for research, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.

Ever since I first met Jeff Smith, a longtime Battelle employee who was credited with the plan to modernize Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), I knew of his passion for…

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