Twenty-five years after founding Professional Project Services Inc., better known as Pro2Serve®, Barry Goss has retired from the Oak Ridge-based national security engineering and information services firm. Yesterday was his…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth article in a series introducing the innovators in Cohort 5 of “Innovation Crossroads.” Each founder will have an article focused on his or her…

Topping our news and notes wrap-up from last week is a great graphic that Ayumi Bennett did for Bailey Foster and Real Good Kitchen (RGK) to show the progress at…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first article in a two-part series that spotlights the history, culture and philosophy of a more than six-decade family-owned business in Knoxville that is undergoing…

The State of Tennessee is “on an economic development roll” generally but this week in particular with the second major announcement in just a few days. On the heels of…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA One of Marianne Wanamaker’s mentors when she arrived at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Economics…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA It’s difficult to imagine a topic or type of event that the organizers of the upcoming “Startup Week Chattanooga” haven’t anticipated and planned….

Thanks to a $500,000 grant from Bank of America, a “Minority Business Accelerator” that has existed in the Upstate (Greenville) portion of South Carolina since 2012 is being expanded to…