The initiative will leverage existing IU pitch competitions and establish a guided program to support groups of faculty and students through the incubation of new business ideas.

That was the prediction of Brett Smith, a 35-year veteran analyzing the automotive industry, during a presentation last week at the “Electric Vehicle Battery Innovations Conference” in Cleveland.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory opened in 1943 and has continued to make groundbreaking discoveries ever since.

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After launching her all-natural beauty product line in 2020, Tonya Hairston is opening her first storefront in East Knoxville.

The EDai platform is the brainchild of a former lead strategist for the Virginia Economic Development Partnership who helped lure Amazon’s HQ2 to Northern Virginia.

Those plans begin with three accelerators for companies at different stages of development.

Knoxville area start-up Eden Concepts LLC is initially focused on simplifying the process of germinating seeds and then transplanting the plants by hand.