The dedication ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m., and special guests will include Chancellor David Gearhart and AEDC Director Maria Haley. IA’s own Techpreneur himself, Jeff Amerine, will be there as well.

August was a busy month for Arkansas patents. The U.S. Patent Office issued 21 patents to Arkansas inventors and entrepreneurs in August. A normal month sees two or three per week come out of Arkansas, which is comparable to other states that share our size and demographics.

Startups from Northwest Arkansas have been generating a lot of buzz recently. Winning international business-plan competitions and ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ will do that. But that doesn’t mean things are quiet on the central Arkansas front.

Another University of Arkansas startup, another prestigious business-plan competition win, another NASDAQ bell ringing. More international prestige for Arkansas entrepreneurs.