The community welcomed 12 new companies to Knoxville for the Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Spark Cleantech Accelerator at the UT Research Park.
The ground level of the Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing at the University of Tennessee Research Park was packed to the brim on Wednesday morning for a sold-out Premier Partner’s event, hosted by the Knoxville Chamber. It was an obvious nod to the overwhelming community support for two key entrepreneurial programs fueling growth in the East Tennessee region.