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<span style="font -size="2:small;">Innovation and Entrepreneurship are a core focus at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS).&nbsp; This is demonstrated through the unique&nbsp;</font><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2">[http://innovation.uccs.edu Bachelor of Innovation^TM] (BI) degree. There are currently 12 BI degrees, spanning across the College of Business, College of Engineering and Applied Science, College of Education, and the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. This degree combines an emphasis (a major), the innovation core, and a cross-discipline core (students can choose between business, globalization, creative communication, or engineering technology). The innovation core, the heart of the BI, provides students with an experiential education in innovation and entrepreneurship.</fontspan></span>

<span style="font-size:small;">In addition to the BI degree, our campus, through the [http://epiic.uccs.edu El Pomar Institute for Innovation and Commercialization (EPIIC)], regularly hosts events focused on innovation and entrepreneurship such as [http://tedxuccs.com TEDxUCCS],&nbsp;'''Startup Weekend''', '''Lion's Den Pitch Night''', '''Global Game Jam''', and&nbsp;'''EPIIC Nights Speaker Series'''.&nbsp; Each of these events are meant to encourage students to get involved in an innovative and entrepreneurial space, attempting to reach both students who have ideas and students who just want to get involved.&nbsp; If a startup comes out of one of these events, or if students create a startup independently,&nbsp;'''The Garage''' is available as an entrepreneurial workspace for students who are developing companies.</span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-64463e47-3fa4-ae64-39f4-4a3dfac6b904"><span style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapsmall;">Faculty offer at UCCS are responsible for the biggest advantages innovative BI degree, but also for creating an atmosphere and curriculum that promotes innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.&nbsp; The curriculum developed for the Innovation Core is designed to facilitate both the mindset shift that is required for students at University of Colorado Colorado Springs have at to utilize their disposal . The Bachelor innate innovative abilities and the experiential learning that allows students to explore this ability with the purpose of Innovation</span><span style="font-size: 7.999999999999999px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">TM </span><span style="font-size: 13transforming ideas into impact through the projects they work on for class.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapsmall;">Outside of the BI</span><span style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) degree is itself an there are few classes that are focued on innovation brought to us by the facultyor entrepreneurship that are widely available. &nbsp; The BI i</span><span style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s the only degree in innovation majority of entrepreneurship classes are focused in the United StatesCollege of Business. Terrance Boult, the founder of the BI</span> <span style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapsmall;">In addition to these classes, specifically made the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgbUCCS is home to both an Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship (51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BI </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13Dr.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51Tom Duenning); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a degree and not a program an Endowed Chair in efforts to make the BI </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgbInnovation (51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">accessible to everyoneDr. &nbsp;Opposed to a Bachelor of Science or Arts, the BI</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51Terrance Boult); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">degree has a unique 24 credit curriculum that centers around who help facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship. Furthermore, UCCS College of Business faculty just opened a community workspace/incubator designed for student start-ups. The UCCS faculty consistently innovate in the on campus community.</span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-64463e47-3fa4-ae64-39f4-4a3dfac6b904"><span style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the Bachelors Bachelor of Innovation™ we have two courses that teach our students about intellectual property and support our university technology transfer function. The first is Business and Intellectual Property Law. In this class, students dive into what intellectual property means and how they can protect their ideas. Students learn how to develop a patent and work together to understand how these skills fit into their futures. The second class, Technical Writing, teaches students how to research, find, and write grants, culminating in writing a real grant proposal for a real client. Both of these classes provide students with hands on experience and skills that they will be able to apply in their future careers. After taking these two classes students have a realistic grasp on what intellectual property is and how they can protect, and leverage it in their future.</span></span></span>

<span><span style="font-size: 13.333333333333332pxsmall; "><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to the BI courses, the University of Colorado, as a system, has a Tech Transfer office which has the ability to license patents out to students to facilitate the development of a product or company around intellectual property that the University owns. This gives students the valuable opportunity to create innovations and protecting their intellectual property out of the box.</span></span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-64463e47-3fa4-ae64-39f4-4a3dfac6b904"><span style="font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The community of Colorado Spring Springs is very entrepreneurially focused and our university is dedicated to teaching innovation and entrepreneurship to students in business, engineering and the arts and sciences. Colorado Springs has makerspaces, coworking spaces, incubators, accelerators and other resources to facilitate the development of startups. With all of these entrepreneurial resources, it is key that the university has substantial relationships with each outlet. Through various programs currently being implemented in conjunction with the university, students have access to internships such as Startup Summer or educational resources such as Startup Weekend.</span></span>