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The startup operates like a talent agent for physicians, letting them browse roles and negotiate offers anonymously, with no placement fee.
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TRISO-X completes vertical construction of TX-1 in Oak Ridge, a major milestone for the nation's first commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility.
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The Georgia-based startup is relocating to Knoxville through the Spark accelerator to scale its process for turning nut shells into cellulose-based ingredients for packaging, coatings, textiles, non-wovens, paper, synthetic leather and other advanced material applications.
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Readel's goal is to use coatings to provide higher efficiency and uptime to industrial systems that experience fouling, corrosion, and high friction in thier manufacturing.
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When people think about business recruitment, names like the Chamber of Commerce or a local economic development agency usually come to mind. But, there is one agency in East Tennessee that serves as the region’s only unbiased economic development organization, promoting the entire 15-county market nationally and internationally.
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Applicants for the fall 2026 cohort came from eight states, from California to Texas to New York, and of course, Tennessee.
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The program places recent graduates in rural local governments, chambers of commerce and city offices for two years — strengthening communities while building Tennessee's economic development workforce pipeline.
