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<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-0a223646-e549-9c91-2d39-f2773df42f03"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mapping out our school ecosystem, we discovered much about our economic development efforts. We found we are not engaged with regional and local economic development efforts as much as we would like to be. Working on Western’s landscape canvas we discovered that the spin-out section reveals how our school is very limited in this area. Being able to engage with industrial parks, new technology, and makerspaces would greatly benefit Western State Colorado University. Many campuses have an economic development office and if we added this to Western it would be a great resource to use in order to have a positive economic benefit. Another great benefit is adding regional sources of capital such as state and institutional funds. Adding these additional funds will increase the economic development throughout our school. Mentoring and business networks will also increase our efforts and will provide the means of connection with different people, different businesses, and different campuses. Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts will overall benefit Western in ways we haven’t seen before.</span></span>

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