The MIT competition is one of the nation’s most prestigious business-plan contests focused on sustainability, and most of the teams Picasolar beat were from MIT and Harvard.

Ten participating teams will be chosen this month from among 92 teams representing 14 countries that applied. The ARK, which debuted last fall in Fayetteville, will return for 14 weeks from June through early September.

Jerry Adams joins the VIC board, Michigan wins at Walmart, the El Dorado Entrepreneur Conference is Friday and, simply put, a whole lotta patents.

Every day I get at least one phone call from an anonymous inventor asking two questions: (1) Do you write patents? (2) What does it cost?