Haslam College of Business - Resource Search

The UT Pendergrass Library provides access to 3D Printing for all UT faculty, staff, and students.

The Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation's Business Accelerator is UT's premier workspace designed to fuel the growth of innovative ventures. Here you'll find dedicated workspace designed for serious startup development, as well as professional meeting spaces for team collaboration, coaching and investor presentations.

This is the main hub for the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the launchpad for business ideas at UT! Located in Room 418 of the Haslam Business Building, the dynamic workspace is where entrepreneurial dreams take shape. Stop in any time!

Hosted by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Boyd Venture Challenge is a seed-fund grant competition conducted in the spring semester each year. Companies are awarded up to $30,000 in startup capital.

This center unites the scientific resources from UT and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, equipping graduates with the deep, applied research expertise needed to launch their own science- and technology-driven ventures.

Occurring twice a year, this event fosters dialogue between academics and entrepreneurs regarding entrepreneurial challenges and strategies for success. Hosted by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, it creates an opportunity for both researchers and business owners to bring value to one another.

The Center for Profitable Agriculture provides educational programming and technical assistance to Tennessee farmers interested in a value-added enterprise to improve farm income.

The Chancellor's Innovation Fund has been established to support commercialization of new technology, launch of technology-based startups, and to fund entrepreneurial opportunities for researchers and faculty members across the UT, Knoxville campus and its institutes. Participants selected for this funding may be awarded an amount up to $50,000 to support commercialization and entrepreneurial endeavors.

This formalized angel capital fund is aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship and fueling economic growth within Tennessee and the surrounding regions.

The CSEE is 10-month certificate program, offered by the Haslam College of Business, that strengthens social mission organizations and those who lead them.

The UT Libraries' Department of Data and Digital Scholarship offers a full range of data services and support to the university and community. For research data services, they provide resources and services for finding, planning, managing, storing, sharing and all things related to research data. They also provide resources and services for understanding and participating in Digital Scholarship.

The UT Libraries offers support to researchers in meeting funding agency requirements for public access to research data and data management plans.

Part of the larger Entrepreneurs Organization network, this community connect entrepreneurs locally and globally through a trusted community where members can build relationships, grow their businesses and support one another.

Any undergraduate student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville can add entrepreneurship to their resume and transcript by earning the interdisciplinary entrepreneurship minor. The Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Minor is an interdisciplinary minor with classes from seven University of Tennessee colleges.

The UT Libraries have a variety of equipment you can borrow including cameras, laptops, audio recorders, headphones, calculators, accessories, and more.

The eXperience Point Lab in the UT Library supports curricular initiatives involving gaming design and graphics-intensive projects. UT Faculty, Lecturers, or Graduate Teaching Assistants may reserve this room to support curricular initiatives involving gaming design and graphics-intensive projects.

The Fairview Technology Center is for high-growth, technology-enabled companies. By pairing affordable office and lab space with hands-on mentorship from its advisory board, this business incubator gives early-stage entrepreneurs the space needed to mature from a promising idea into a self-sustaining company.

The ACEI Founders' Pledge allows all UT entrepreneurs to signal their intention to support UT's emerging founders through commitments of time, talent, financial contributions. See the list of signees and make your pledge today!

The Graves Business Plan Competition hosted by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation offers UT students the opportunity to win start-up capital for an original business idea. $20,000 in total prizes are awarded among first, second, and third place in two business categories: growth and lifestyle.

The Heath Integrated Business and Engineering program unites UT students and knowledge in the Tickle College of Engineering and Haslam College of Business. The program pairs an industry-focused curriculum with immersive, professional, co-curricular experiences to graduate leaders with a comprehensive, systems-thinking approach to breaking down silos and solving challenges.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a partnering institution in the Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Mid-South Hub. In a three-week program, it focuses on customer discovery and offers education and other support to introduce the regional research community to the National I-Corps Program.

This alliance develops, supports and promotes the Knoxville region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and serves as the connective hub of Knoxville's startup scene, uniting universities, national labs, government and investors through signature events like 865 Fest to give entrepreneurs a single platform to the region's mentorship, funding and pitch opportunities.

Innovation Crossroads is an early-stage entrepreneurial program in energy, embedding founders directly inside a national laboratory with a living stipend, research and development funding and access to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's scientific resources. This program gives hard-tech entrepreneurs the time and tools they need to turn lab-stage innovations into commercially viable companies.

The Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation can help connect students with internship opportunities at local startups to gain valuable experience and insight into what it's like to be part of an exciting new business.

The Kao Innovation & Collaboration Studio in the Tickle College of Engineering provides resources to students in the form of technology, tools, and knowledge in order to help them materialize their ideas. The Kao ICS is student-led with staff ready to help students create everything from 3D printing parts to programming microcontrollers.

The Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) is dedicated to inspiring, encouraging and enabling entrepreneurs. Through stage-specific accelerators, pitch competitions and mentorship from local executives, KEC walks founders from an idea to a scalable, investable business.

Launch Tennessee is a statewide economic development organization focused on strategies that increase the formation and expansion of businesses.

As an Engineering Vol, you have the opportunity to learn from world-class faculty inside state-of-the-art facilities that prepare you to thrive as an emerging leader. To help you take on these future leadership roles, the college is launching a new cross-discipline program in engineering leadership.

Market Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Knoxville with a focus on early-stage startups in Tennessee, the Southeast and Appalachia.

The Tennessee Master Farm Manager program focuses on solid business principles to help farmers better manage their operation. They help farmers create a strong business foundation to make better decisions for their farm's future.

The Medbery Makerspace in the Hodges Library welcomes all students, faculty and staff in the UTK community to create, draft, dream, and make with us. The tools they provide are largely grouped in 4 categories: Arts & Crafts, Tools, Textiles, and Fabrication.

Meet the Founders is a unique series that introduces attendees to the visionary minds behind incredible businesses. Hosted by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, attendees are able to meet founders across Knoxville in a casual setting.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) empowers leaders and teams to pursue breakthroughs in an environment marked by operational excellence and engagement local communities.

ORIED (Hodges Library, Room 170) is here to support the community of researchers, scholars, and creatives, from ideation to impact. Their dedicated team is here to help people develop competitive proposals and sources of support for their work, seed investments in promising new areas, nurture new and established multidisciplinary communities of scholars, and support and sustain a strong culture of research integrity.

UT researchers and scholars are encouraged to make publications, datasets, and projects available open access. The library provides resources that enable either open access publishing or archiving in TRACE, their open access repository.

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation assists innovators and researchers with filing patents. They will help you learn about the United States patent system and the effect of public disclosure on patenting.

Based in Norwood, Ohio, Queen City Angels finds capital to scale businesses, mentors founding teams and provides experienced counsel to improve entrepreneurs’ chances of success.

The staff at the UT libraries can help assist you find articles, books, data, primary sources, etc. They also help you design search strategies for literature reviews, show you how to use citation management tools, create media-enhanced projects, and understand scholarly communication issues such as copyright and open access publishing.

The Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fellows Program seeks to create a community of faculty members across the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who are conducting academic research focused on entrepreneurship and/or innovation from a business development perspective.

Broadband internet is still out of reach for many rural communities in Tennessee who have limited access to broadband internet (25 megabits per second), making them some of the most digitally disconnected communities in Tennessee. The State of Tennessee's rural broadband initiative is a program to provide reliable and affordable internet to rural residents.

SCORE consists of more than 50 experienced business professionals who volunteer to consult with small business owners.

Each spring, the Tickle College of Engineering holds their Senior Design Showcase where we go beyond the classroom to bridge the gap between industry and education. The Senior Design capstone class is the final educational element that ties together all their engineering, science, and humanities learnings as our students transition to the next phase of their lives.

The Spark Cleantech Accelerator was created in partnership with Evergreen Climate Innovations and other partners to support early stage cleantech businesses and drive commercialization of their technologies in Tennessee and throughout the Midwest and the Southeast in a 12-week program.

In a two-year program, the Spark Incubator program provides participants top quality laboratory space, business model development, connections with top researchers at UT, and helps make connections with established companies in the Research Park and throughout the region.

The Spark Scholars program at UT is a student internship training program that brings together early-stage tech companies located at UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm and UT undergraduate engineering students for jointly sponsored internships related to materials and material processing-related research and development.

The Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation offers targeted, high-impact coaching to all entrepreneurs across UT's campus. Our Startup Coach program features a diverse team of experts to offer tailored guidance that precisely addresses each startup's unique challenges.

The strategy, entrepreneurship and organizations Ph.D. program is a five-year program that features coursework in strategic management, entrepreneurship and organizational behavior and theory. Each doctoral student also completes a set of research methods courses.

Summer Studio is a new 10-week summer program hosted by Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation designed to help launch business ideas. It's exclusively for University of Tennessee students or alumni who have graduated within 12 months of applying to Summer Studio.

The Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation's Sweet Idea program is a casual way for students to share new business ideas. After sharing an idea, the Anderson Center will give the participant a voucher to the UT Creamery.

The Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation's Teaching Fellows program brings together faculty from across the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who teach courses related to entrepreneurship or innovation. They share best practices for teaching and developing entrepreneurship and innovation skills and capabilities in UT students.

The technology commercialization concentration is a two-course, graduate-level concentration created by the Haslam College of Business. It guides students through the process of assessing a technology's commercial potential and launching a new venture.

Teknovation is a Knoxville technology innovation news source with daily reporting. It gives entrepreneurs a public stage to showcase their progress while keeping the wider community informed about the resources, funding and success stories shaping the region's innovation economy.

This state organization helps get new businesses started by offering free, confidential consulting and hands-on training at every stage of business ownership. This organization gives entrepreneurs the practical guidance and capital connections they need to grow.

The Studio, located in the Commons South at Hodges Library, is a media production and design lab open to all UT students, staff, and faculty. The Studio provides multimedia workstations, production software, knowledgeable staff, and training materials to assist in the creation of multimedia education projects.

Three Roots Capital provides impact capital and assistance to job-creating, place-making companies and projects.

The TeNnessee MAnufacturing and Design Enterprise (TN-MADE) facility in Hardin Valley is one of the programmatic and physical manifestations of the Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (MI2), an initiative launched by the Institute of Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (IAMM) at UT.

This foundation provides assistance and resources to the research activities of faculty, staff and students who are part of UT System campuses and institutes.

A university-based center that helps businesses improve their economic competitiveness.

With an office in each of the state's ninety-five counties, UT Extension helps Tennesseans to improve their quality of life and solve problems through the application of research and evidenced-based knowledge about agriculture and natural resources, family and consumer sciences, 4-H youth development, and community development.

The UT Farming Fundamentals educational program is an online resource focusing on producers who are beginning a new venture in agriculture. This program will include resources and information on the essential principles needed to build a successful operation.

This lab offers a variety of sensory evaluation and consumer research services to the food industry.

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation's Accelerate Fund provides funding opportunities to help viable startups and bring more UT innovations to the world. Managed by UTRF, the fund is uniquely positioned to assess new ventures created from UT's innovations.

As part of its mission to serve as a recognized leaders in tech-based entrepreneurial support, the University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) provides the UTRF Business Incubator is a physical space and resource for early-stage tech firms spun out of university research.

The Entrepreneurial Fellow Program aims to train outstanding recent graduate students with scholarly and technical expertise for careers focused on innovation, technology development, commercialization, and entrepreneurship.

Executives-in-Residence (EIRs) are experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and business professionals who collaborate with UT startups and entrepreneurial researchers, providing expertise and connections for opportunity assessment and venture creation.

The annual UTRF maturation grant funding program aims to assist researchers in advancing new technologies on the path to market by awarding up to $20,000 in direct costs to the highest ranking proposals.

Vol Court is a four-week entrepreneurial speaker series that culminates in a business idea pitch competition. Hosted by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, participants put what they've learned into practice by pitching their business ideas to a panel of successful entrepreneurs for a chance to win part of the $3,000 total prize.

In Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Y-12 is a premier manufacturing facility dedicated to making the U.S. and the world safer and plays a vital role in the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Security Enterprise.