By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA It’s called “America’s Seed Fund” for a very fundamental reason that many Tennessee small businesses fully understand, and the federal Small Business Innovation…
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By Kailyn Lamb, Marketing Content Writer and Editor, PYA The “TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo,” held in Washington, D.C. last month, recognized two Knoxville research projects for its annual…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Friday’s “Business Engagement” workshop hosted by the University of Tennessee’s (UT) Spark Innovation Center featured a smorgasbord of solid content for the 40…
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Want to hear pitches by the six companies comprising Cohort 4 of Argonne National Laboratory’s “Chain Reaction Innovations” program, a sibling of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s “Innovation Crossroads” program? If…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA John Derrick, a recent addition to the Knoxville region’s ecosystem, starts work today as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at the Spark Innovation Center at…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA About three dozen individuals – two-thirds of them attending in-person and the balance virtually – participated in a more than five-hour discussion on…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Is Knoxville now the area that has the most start-up accelerators with an energy focus? It just might be. If not, it is…