Tennessee Innovation Exchange
Tennessee, United States
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Ecosystem overview

Innovation connected. Tennessee elevated. A statewide platform for university-industry partnerships.

Tennessee Innovation Exchange (TNIX) connects industry partners with research expertise across the state's leading institutions. Explore searchable profiles of researchers, available intellectual property, cutting-edge facilities, and active collaboration opportunities. Tennessee-based companies can post partnership requests and challenges directly to the research community. For researchers and institutions, TNIX increases visibility and creates pathways to industry partnerships, funding, and commercialization support.

Built on the Halo Science platform and powered by Launch Tennessee in partnership with Tennessee Technology Advancement Consortium institutions, TNIX brings the state's research ecosystem together in one place. The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development supports R&D collaborations between Tennessee industry partners and research institutions, and Launch Tennessee has funding available for startups seeking to license or develop university technology.

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Charles Layne
Technology Advancement Director
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Top industry applications
Precision farming & smart agriculture
Telemedicine & remote care
Personalized medicine
Artificial intelligence & machine learning
Pharmaceuticals and drug delivery
Renewable energy generation
Logistics optimization
Electric vehicle technology
Cybersecurity & data protection
Quantum computing systems & platforms
Nuclear energy applications