LaunchTn says they want to foster innovation

Cookeville – Tennessee Tech University will be hosting “Innovator Day” along with LaunchTN.

According to a release by LaunchTN, the new collaboration, Tennessee Technology Advancement Cortium, is a “pilot project working to provide commercialization and technology transfer support for The University of Memphis, Tennessee State University and Tennessee Tech University.”

The event will be held Feb. 9.

“This collaboratively helps the state of Tennessee,” said Dr. Michael Aikens, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Tennessee Tech University and the university’s executive director for the consortium. “It promotes new knowledge that solves direct societal problems.”

LaunchTn says they want to foster innovation.

“The new collaboration aims to foster innovation,” said LaunchTN, “democratize access to commercialization support for novel technologies and streamline commercialization of university-based innovations across Tennessee.”

For more information on the collaboration visit HERE.

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