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)
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Sustainable Logistics: UTRF startup tackles sustainability challenges in transportation supply chain
Tracking and reducing Scope 3 carbon emissions across the transportation supply chain is a daunting challenge facing the commercial trucking industry. Alex Scott, associate professor and Gerald T. Niedert professor in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, spent nearly a decade working in the transportation sector and years researching supply (read more)
UTRF involved in licensing discussions for several technologies created by UTHSC College of Pharmacy innovators
According to a report by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the UTHSC College of Pharmacy has received $19.2 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2022. It now ranks No. 6 on the list of 140 member institutions – up from No. 12 the previous year. The (read more)