Charles (Chuck) Shoopman wanted to launch the Tennessee SBIR Proposal Assistance Center, he talked to a variety of partners. Chuck got the SBIR Assistance Center off the ground in January 2006, in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the NNSA Y-12 Facility, Technology 2020, the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley, the East Tennessee Economic Council, and Integrated Manufacturing

Eric Cromwell gave a great overview of the role the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation hopes to play as it becomes “relevant again” as the new CEO put it. Podcast in AAC format with chapter markers. A blog post about the direction TTDC is going can be found here.