Noting that 94 percent of the job growth nationally recently has occurred in self-employed or independent contracting, the Appalachian Regional Commission has provided funding to launch a program in…

Yesterday’s “Incubatenergy Labs Demo Day” that featured Jesse Thornburg, Chief Executive Officer of Grid Fruit, and nine other entrepreneurs adopted a unique format that might be described as a 360…

Nate Brady says, “I’m here to play the long game and do it right,” and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) doctoral candidate underscores that strategy by pointing to 15…

The Knoxville Technology Council is hosting a policy forum focused on updates from the eKnox Task Force to provide broadband for all K-12 students and the plan for a high-speed…

Davidson College is a well-respected institution of higher education that also is home to a 23,000 square foot entrepreneurial facility named, appropriately enough, the Hurt Hub. It is billed as…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Knoxville Entrepreneur Center recently completed its “The Works 2020” start-up accelerator with seven participants. We are spotlighting them in a series of articles. Today’s article features Brenda…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Participants in Cohort 2 of the “Innovation Crossroads” program operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory have completed their two-year fellowship that was extended a few months due to…

Five Tennessee energy start-ups – all members of Cohort 2 of the “Innovation Crossroads” program operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – have also graduated from the “Energy Mentor…