By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Tricia Martinez has set a high bar for herself between now and early October. “My goal is to interface with 500 companies,” the…

Almost seven months to the day after the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kairos Power shared preliminary plans for a major investment in Oak Ridge during the annual meeting…

Eden Concepts, a Knoxville-based agricultural technology start-up that we most recently spotlighted in this November 2020 teknovation.biz article, has won another mall Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant, this…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA After experiencing and overcoming health issues, Raven Hernandez – a  passionate environmentalist and Lipscomb University graduate – decided to do something to tackle…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final article in a two-part series based on an interview with the Vice Chancellor and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Tennessee…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first article in a two-part series based on an interview with the Vice Chancellor and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Tennessee…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA As companies of all sizes evaluate what to do about employees returning to the office with the low number of COVID-19 cases being…

A well-known player in the Oak Ridge contractor and environmental community has a new role. Sherry Browder, who spent nearly two decades with SAIC and Leidos after the latter was…