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Academic When the collaboration with colleges and universities, some paperwork may be required based on the type of collaborations that the incubator space provides. If the incubator space merely provides the space for extra-curriculum activities, obtaining the permission is difficultto collaborate with the school may be much easier. However, if the collaboration relates to student's credits or class work, this permission can be very restricted. School administrative Also this permission process usually goes is very slowly individually based. Depending on the type of school and hard to get project approvedthe level of support towards entrepreneurship, the permission varies a lot. One In the case of Spark Boulder, one of the problem that Richman went into was getting support from University of Colorado, although students and low level faculty members are in need and love to have a student incubator space to work on their entrepreneurial projects. However, Richmanchose another route. Instead of getting support and collaborate with the school, he leveraged the local highly entrepreneurial community and simply made the space available to the students. So he didn't need to get permission from the school, but at same time, student entrepreneurial organizations will still come and use the space for their meetings and events.