The UT Research Foundation, in partnership with the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, will offer an entrepreneurial workshop series this fall focusing on legal and business information and the skill sets needed to launch and grow successful technology-based companies. When: Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., beginning Sept. 20 and ending Nov. 1 (read more)
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Call For Proposals: UTRF Maturation Funding Program
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) is announcing a call for submissions for the eighth annual UTRF Maturation Funding program. Proposals are due into your Research Office by close of business October 13, 2014. The program helps UT researchers further develop technologies that have potential for commercial success. Up to $15,000 in direct costs (read more)
UT Receives NSF Award To Commercialize Discovery
KNOXVILLE — Jimmy Mays, a chemistry professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has developed a substance that promises to replace conventional rubber in many products with something that is stronger, greener and easier to recycle. Now he’s joining forces with the College of Business Administration’s Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to turn his (read more)