More than 2,500 teams have participated in I-Corps since the program's inception in 2012, and nearly 1,400 have launched start-ups that have cumulatively raised $3.16 billion in subsequent funding.

“My life has been a crash course in stress, burnout, trauma, and mental illness,” she says, adding that it was “a course that almost cost me my life.”

The new Center for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing at UTK will receive $18 million in NSF funding over six years to develop sophisticated AI and computational tools and deploy them in the design and synthesis of next-generation materials.

They range from an all-new season of the "Big Ideas Welcome" podcast series to upcoming events like "KTech CONNECT," application deadline for "CO.LAB Mobility Accelerator," and early bird discounts for "Startup Mountain Summit."

With four locations throughout the city, K Brew is one of Knoxville's largest local coffee chains.

“The composite world has truly descended on Knoxville this week,” said IACMI CEO Chad Duty. “We’re developing an incredible ecosystem around composites innovation and manufacturing.”

Here's a roundup of business and entrepreneurship news from around the Southeast region.

Narayan Iyer grew up in the Republic of Indonesia, a country of more than 17,000 islands, where one of the biggest challenges to quality of life and economic vitality is the availability of reliable power.