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Cross-border trade, entrepreneurship and investment likely to flow from this week's step forward.

Initiative seeks economic expansion and inclusive prosperity.

Founder's early track record and discipline of 'value lens' investing may be generating sustained momentum.

UPDATED 26 Jan 24 - Growing emphasis placed on bringing impactful QT innovations into commercialization.

UPDATED 8 March 2024 A myriad of scheduled events lies just ahead and we're pointing you to several dozen in this collection.

Pasta innovator raising first investment as global strategic pasta brands seek innovation at-scale.

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation dba Launch Tennessee is making a signal hire.

A baker's-dozen of venture updates, including ClearTrack, TraceFemcare, Writerly, Invergarry, Swingzen and more.

UPDATES Memphis-based hub sees diversity, agtech, national ecosystem development and innovation acceleration as vital.

Five TN cities home to 10 Engine candidates seeking to strengthen region's entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystem.

[Updated] Co-founders seek $2MM, as VU OwenGSM, VU The Wond'ry and others seem to recognize startup's promise.

[Updated M&A] Backed by Frist, Sumitomo, et al, digital therapeutics startup mulls Series B capital raise.

Beacon Impact advocates seek to preserve status quo (ante) of Tennessee companies' R&D-cost expensing.

Healthcare, transportation, mobility among targets of new Chattanooga Regional Catalyst Fund

Current and future startups being spawned by TTO focused on commercializing innovation.

UPDATED: U.S. Treasury program to move economic-development, equity and entrepreneurship needles, soon to be revived.

Amid pandemic and General Assembly session looming, 'broadest sandbox program in the U.S.' is the goal.

20 pieces of evidence that startup-, innovation- and deal-oriented folks find plenty to like in Kentucky.

[updated] Capital raises, executive moves, venture plays, true startups and more.

White House scitech advisors suggest AI, biotech, comms, quantum infoscience, advanced manufacturing initiatives.

Consequential innovation and entrepreneurship issues are overshadowed, but may get visibility in future.

Gov. Bill Lee updates us, plus 17 venture updates and resources on telemed, M&A and more.

Specialized early-stage tech-centric ventures with market-entry challenges have 7 potential new allies.

[Updated] EDA has $33MM pot, says previous grant wins no reason to withhold well defined, competitive ideas.

$3MM+ will go to new capital formation, entrepreneurship, mentoring and related initiatives. 3 winners in the state. 6 teams submitted compelling ideas.

Entrepreneurship, innovation, social impact, blockchain, networking are threads running in parallel.

The latest in a series of biannual rankings of the States on science and technology competitiveness.

VU Law alum, Case ally and tech-policy veteran shares views on startup regulation, capital, talent, diversity and more.

Brock steams ahead, with a successor CEO likely to be tapped before year-end.

Incubator management plans to keep potential businesses on-pace for development, commercialization.

$40MM raise at Claritas, accelerator and startup news, and more from around the state.

[updated] 2016 rocks with appealing events statewide.

The new center's portfolio, mission, identity and reach are getting steadily sharper.

More than a dozen nuggets from around the state.

Frontier Capital, Petra Capital, TextRequest, CEAdvisory raise, Pharos Cap, VU Med Innovators, MDSave.

While talk of industry consolidation and impediments continues, entrepreneurs keep innovating.

Prominent business group announces next cohort of leaders.

[updated] Trained as Engineer, school by Life in empathy as a key design ingredient for social good.

[updated] North Carolina-based entrepreneur and scholar begins work April 1.

Tennessee execs comment on Jumpstart Foundry founders' criticism of accelerator model.

Still fully engaged Postdoc Fellow has entrepreneurial vision.

VTC State's AgLaunch initiative should get a boost, along with allies.

[Update] A panel focuses on the need for value-adding innovation and public-policy advocacy.

[updated] Veteran entrepreneur and exec educator proves his story has wheels.

Step by step, ECD agent LaunchTN charts a fresh path forward on knotty issue.

[Updated] Who knows, such relatively stealthy encounters may be underway, daily.

National and State workforce- and innovation-oriented initiatives link TN cities.

Round Two pilot of a tech startup competition could be just beginning of League of Cities effort.

Memphis Bioworks CEO Steve Bares makes the announcement

VTC Universities in Cookeville, Murfreesboro, Nashville plan to partner to serve industry, entrepreneurs

[updated] Stefansic and Hogin among those departing, with interest in private-sector jobs.

[updated] A capital raise might lie ahead for company that looks to enrich its platform, expand globally.

Venture Tennessee reports on an Oak Ridge financial play within the 3D-advanced manufacturing sector

John Ingram asks the founder of AOL about ways to 'disrupt' politics-as-usual.

With fingers crossed and funds in-hand, the tech-centric nonprofit forges ahead

There are some new faces among the 'usual suspects' applying at INCITE Fund

Paddock, Box, Griggs, Tolbert: entrepreneurs bootstrapping their way, and worthy of note.

Streamweaver 'stealth' no more...Unconference events... ECD budget comments... much more in this regional roundup

Joe Cook Jr. seems to be executing with precision a gameplan to establish momentum for a still-small sector

Alliance push to help protect and commercialize intellectual property could become a global movement

As widely anticipated, the Feds came through with $29.7MM in funding for Gov. Bill Haslam's innovation-breeding program

Nashville leader says the sometimes controversial program is 'worthwhile experiment' in jobs creation.

Nashville VC's Oak Ridge affiliate has focused one of its startups on commercializing 'the Moses effect'

Governor addresses fast-growth sector; details of venture funding, entrepreneur award and tech-transfer still unfolding

' Overhaul and investment ' could lead to accelerated enterprise development from VU research and development

Medical devices may get a boost from the collaboration of two life-science weighted funds and an innovation driver

The first of several potential new funds will soon test the waters for venture investment

New chair at lifesciences association..Parental Health update.. Bredesen aide moves.. Silicon Ranch and Venture Incite add staff.. PE investors disappear after liquidation.. bio-entrepreneurs..more

Vanguard's Martin, Community Health's Smith among those signing-on to to drive outcomes, drive down costs.

News and notes from around Tennessee on science, technology, innovation and related policy.

Spawning a more robust entrepreneurial culture calls for more give-and-take, not more 'control' in the eyes of this veteran of ventures and IPOs

New healthcare technology push rumored, start-up said relocating to Nashville, as activity heats up

Some believe the General Assembly should next move to increase the TNInvestco pot to $200 million

Four business leaders formed the core of group that picked the NEC's inaugural board

For perhaps the next six months, the pace of development of Tennessee's emerging New Economy will be largely in the hands of elected officials

Developers may think they're only toiling in obscurity, but they may well be under the observant eye of local VCs and Angels

Vanderbilt pharma program inches cautiously toward tech transfer, while key faculty member keeps firm hand on the tiller

Nashville Angels and TNInvestco winner among targets of much-touted Nooga startup

Vanderbilt institute gets a key role with ORNL and UT, in scenario for improving university collaboration and state's entrepreneurism

Warning TNInvestco's not enough, TTDC hopes to keep its mission alive, maybe by spinning-off new ventures

Entrepreneur says local tech community has 'a lot to prove', before access to venture capital improves

A serial entrepreneur continues to embrace Nashville, even tho its investors are 'too damn nice'

Some are shoppers, some are bidders, some are there to keep an eye on others...and some are committed to vying for TNInvestco certification

Those who would be fund managers in the state's new program are taking a close look at the groundrules and the competition

There may be fences to mend, but now it's time for the state's VCs to Cowboy Up and make a move

[Updated] As the stakes get higher for tech transfer and R&D, UT makes far-reaching changes in governance of its research, licensing and venture arm

The annual Accelerator endurance and innovation test produces much food for thought.

With $17.2 billion soon under the scalpel, startup feels it has a better mousetrap for improving quality and financial returns

NCN's latest investment... Luminetx startup possibly touched by SEC-accused Stanford Financial...Consensus Point and NHI get new officers... ORNL exec goes corporate... Stimulus roundup...

With former VC hired to lead program, grant for entrepreneurship helps flesh-out tech-development ecosystem

CEO-driven initiative aims to heighten employee engagement in the company's success

Prominent technology groups need more than better real estate to compete in 'brutally' competitive funding environment

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation has a great gameplan, but the clock is ticking for policymakers, VCs, scientists and entrepreneurs

Hundreds of discoveries and patents on-hand, Vanderbilt expands its efforts to commercialize intellectual property

No cold feet at Emma, as company embraces higher-touch services and continues growing its workforce in Davidson County

Nashville's creative roots are strong and the juices are flowing. Now, the 'sustainability' theme is due a hearing.

While waiting for chaos to subside, entrepreneurs should be careful not to overplay their hands, but they should come to bargain hard

Techies, marketers, inventors and lawyers are expected among the throng gathering tomorrow on the Vanderbilt campus

TTDC lands prominent healthcare CEO, scientist and policy influential to help navigate the shores of business, academe and government

A year after joining the innovative company, a creative Owen faculty member is back in academe

While critics sound off and Biotech targets General Assembly, an economy-shaping executive keeps pushing education and innovations

Beating-out more than 800 competitors, a confident Statzen hopes a few minutes elevator-pitching West Coast investors will shorten the fund-raising cycle for this emerging company.

There are no 'weathervanes' among these folks. Defining 'institutional', a caution about egos, and a reminder that sounds a lot like 'Dance with the one that brung ya'

Digital Nashville initiative believes it can make a difference in breeding community for folks in interactive media, streaming, design, other fields.

Tonight, NBC provides another test of Nashville's brand-image -- while the Entrepreneur Project confronts 'lagging innovative capacity', inadequate capital and slow tech commercialization.

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation continues to assemble its team to drive tech-centered economic development.

These Nashville entrepreneurs are celebrating this morning, but we won't see another batch of innovators til 2010. Other competitions at UT and FedEx Institute are about all there are in the state, at the moment.

Strange Days: A sitting President signs a bill funding science, technology and education and simultaneously vows to gut funding. The federal budget has been held up, ever since.

Now, after selling its first FDA-approved product to a close ally, BioMimetic is flush with cash and experience -- and committed to developing biotechnologies in Middle Tennessee.