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!
The next TIA meeting is on February 20, 2010.
Everyone is asked to bring invention ideas to the February meeting. At the January meeting, Tom Kulaga kicked off the new year with a discussion of the A to Z of Inventing project. In February the TIA will evaluate member ideas to determine commercial feasibility. SEveral members have volunteered to tell the TIA about their ideas and have the TIA members discuss their ideas as was done during the January meeting.
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!
