Tennessee Inventors Association
TIA: Tennessee Inventors Association in Knoxville Tenn and Oak Ridge TN
Oak Ridge and Knoxville, TN

Tennessee Inventors Association

The Tennessee Inventors Association is an organization in East Tennessee dedicated to promoting independent inventors. Members are from Knoxville and Oak Ridge and some come from Chattanooga, Cleveland, Bristol, Johnson City, Morristown, and other East Tennessee areas. The TIA also has members from as far away as Ohio and Virginia. The Tennessee Inventors Association is a great resource for inventors, innovators, and entreprenours.

The TIA meets monthly on the third Saturday at 10 am in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A map to the meeting hall is here. Visitors are always welcome!

Upcoming Meeting: July 18, 2009

Tom Whisman, the Business Reference Manager at the Knox County Public Library / Lawson McGhee Library, is scheduled to present information on how to research companies and products. He will discuss the various services and databases that are available through the public library.

The primary goal of the TIA is the advancement of technology throughout Tennessee with its accompanying economic growth. Toward this end, TIA provides information, guidance, and encouragement to those involved in innovation. It is a chartered non-profit organization in the State of Tennessee composed of inventors and other persons interested in the innovation process.

The TIA membership includes independent inventors, small business developers, engineers, and scientists from state and federal research and educational facilities. The span of technical expertise and inventions ranges from high-tech to low-tech, from lasers to games to cat toys. Other TIA members are from business-related fields and are available as consultants to the other members. For example, we have patent agents and patent attorneys as members, and we frequently have business attorneys and lawyers, model makers, graphic artists, modelers, designers, and others as visitors. Even if you do not have an invention, you are welcome to join the TIA!


News Ticker...

06-15-09 Falling Prey to Invention Submission Scams is an interesting blog. It has lots of good advice.

06-14-09 The Oak Ridge Secret City Festival is scheduled for June 19 & 20.

05-25-09 Minnesota Inventors Congress is having the 52nd annual MIC invention expo starting June 12.

05-23-09 TSBDC is offering a free seminar on government contracting at Roane State Community College, Oak Ridge Campus on June 3 from 9am to 1pm.

05-18-09 SCORE of Knoxville is presenting Strategies for Thriving in a Recession on May 29. Call 865-246-2622 for rmore info.

05-04-09 Local inventor Martin Skinner is hoping to have some roses at the ET Festival of Roses on May 23.

05-04-09 " the 2009 National SBIR Conference: "Re-Energizing America," is November 2-5, 2009.

04-28-09 Our very own Martin Skinner was shown with his Koil Kaddy on the Discovery Channel Pitchman show.


Site last updated on 06-24-09



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The TIA wishes to thank Laurel Bowen for her efforts in creating the website and maintaining it for several years.