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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

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.

Tenn Inventors Assoc TIA meeting at Tech 2020

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!

Newest Blogs

  • 02-07-10 Tennessee Small Business Development Centers On-line Training
  • 01-16-10 A to Z of Inventing: A program for 2010
  • 11-19-09 Tennessee State Government Announces New Venture Capital Funding Source
  • 08-31-09 Video: What Every Inventor Needs to Know
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News Ticker . . .

02-07-10 SCORE is holding a So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur? workshop on February 13 & 27 and March 13 & 27 in Knoxville. Space is limited. Call 865-692-0717 to register.


02-06-10 SCORE announces a Lunch and Learn workshop for Negotiation Basics on February 25 from noon to 2pm in Roane County. Call 865-376-5572 for info.


01-14-10 SCORE announces a Lunch and Learn workshop for Time Management: Strategic Concepts & Practical Time Savers on January 28 from noon to 2pm in Roane County. Call 865-376-5572 for info.


12-04-09 Wired Magazine Getting From Idea to Reality Isn't Easy article about bringing new technology to market. An interesting take on what is required, including hardware, time, distribution, and marketing.


11-18-09 This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week. Tennessee has many activities planned.


11-19-09 SCORE informs us of a new capital funding source sponsored by the State of Tennessee.  The Tennessee Dept. of Economic and Community Development recently announced the launch of TNInvestco.


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