Ryan Spencer, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ThermaMatrix, has known he wanted to engineer since high school. His old truck had broken down, and instead of taking it to the auto repair shop and spending thousands of dollars he did not have as a teenager, he decided to buy the parts and fix the (read more)
Entrepreneurship
Inventor Spotlight: Gary Bates
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation is proud to work with innovative researchers like Gary Bates, professor and Department Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at UT Knoxville. When I look over my career, that’s what I enjoy – helping people succeed,” said Bates. Bates began his career at UT as an Extension Forage (read more)
Spotlight on: Entrepreneurship
Far too many research projects with commercial potential stall on the threshold of viability because graduate student innovators graduate and leave the University. The University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program seeks to retain talented individuals in the region and invigorate the innovation ecosystem through work on projects that lead to deep tech startups. (read more)