This edition covers the real Tennessee outside Nashville, which already has its own dedicated coverage. Memphis, in Shelby County, is Tennessee's largest city and the headquarters of FedEx -- a real global logistics economy built around the airport, not a satellite of Nashville. Knoxville, in Knox County, sits next to Oak Ridge (Anderson County), one of the Department of Energy's original Manhattan Project sites and still a real national-laboratory research base. Chattanooga, in Hamilton County, built a real advanced-manufacturing base around a Volkswagen assembly plant. Johnson City and the Tri-Cities anchor northeast Tennessee. None of these are Nashville, and this edition doesn't treat them as smaller versions of it.
Region Stats
Total firms
34
VC / investors
11
Companies
7
Schools
16
Known For
Memphis
Oak Ridge
Chattanooga
