Startup Day is an annual event designed to celebrate startup and entrepreneurial culture in East Tennessee. Startup Day brings together businesses and entrepreneurs looking for the next big idea, investors and Angels looking for new startup opportunities, businesses offering services to startups and small businesses, regional accelerators, research institutions and East Tennesseans interested in learning (read more)
Entrepreneurship
TechSmarrt Wins Fall 2015 Vol Court Pitch Competition
Article by Tennessee Today TechSmarrt, a team of UT students, beat twelve competitors to win the fall 2015 Vol Court Pitch Competition. The student team pitched software they developed for use in industry and pharmaceutical applications. Eva Mutunga, Christine Ajinjeru, Adeola Adediran, and Akinola Oyedele—all doctoral candidates with UT’s Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research (read more)
UTRF Tech Talks: Ask An Entrepreneur
Faculty entrepreneurs Dr. Maria Gomes-Solecki, Dr. Lisa Jennings, and Dr. Ed Chaum spoke to an audience about their experiences starting and running new life science businesses. The speakers have collectively launched 9 companies in diverse fields from vaccines and medical devices to telemedicine and contract research services, and have raised more than $20 million (read more)