Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

By comparison, North Carolina placed 10 on the list.

Gates-backed AgBiome might be shutting operations, while a Chapel Hill company secures funding for a clinical trial for an anti-fentanyl drug.

Thirty-one earn designation as "Tech Hubs," while 29 secured grants to help them significantly increase local coordination and planning activities.

Duke University reports record licensing revenue of $102.5 million, 325 invention disclosures, 90 licensing agreements, and 104 issued patents.

For starters, the average U.S. consumer multitasks enough to have a 31:51-hour day.

Also on tap are two events in Johnson City, courtesy of FoundersForge.