Business: Entrepreneurship & Small Business: Tennessee/Knoxville Information

Established in 1949 by the Tennessee General Assembly, MTAS provides technical advice to cities and towns across the state: their governing bodies, mayors, city managers, city recorders, and city department heads.

These Tennessee businesses received Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 or more. Type in the search box to filter the list (e.g., by business name or city), or click on the table headers to sort.

Contains various types of assistance in starting or locating a business in Tennessee

The Census State Data Center (SDC) program is a State/Census Bureau cooperative program with a mission of providing efficient access to US Census data and products, providing training and technical assistance to data users, and providing feedback to the Census Bureau on data usability, as well as state and local government data needs and operational issues.

TSBDC offers free assistance to help Tennessee business owners develop successful businesses. Their web page has a description of their services, an entrepreneur's manual, links to additional web resources and more.

Public Record search for local businesses in TN.

The Development Corporation manages and allocates land and other resources to promote business development. The web site contains additional links to local business development agencies.

A voluntary association of municipal and county governments in the mid-east region of Tennessee providing planning and development services, ETDD also compiles local demographic and economic data

Knoxville-Knox County Planning collects data to support its planning efforts in Knoxville and Knox County. This data is not just valuable to our agency, it is valuable to Knox County citizens.

Knoxville's Chamber has an economic development division that aids small businesses. Also, search the online directory of chamber members to discover more small local business owners

The current print copy is in the Newspaper section (the Reference Room 1/F Hodges). You can also access the paid e-version via the library catalog.

Provides statistics on a variety of demographic and economic indicators. Comparable indicators for 3,141 counties nationwide plus unique side-by-side comparisons.