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*<span style="font-size:small;">[https://www.quadcos.org/ QUAD Innovation Partnership] is an organization collaborating with the four major colleges in Colorado Springs (UCCS, Colorado College, United States Air Force Academy, and Pikes Peak Community College) to help students transfer into the working world by offering internship opportunities to work on projects important to Colorado Springs.</span>
<span style="font-size:small;">These resources can provide great value to students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship at UCCS. <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-64463e47-3fa4-ae64-39f4-4a3dfac6b904"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The community of Colorado Springs it is very entrepreneurially focused therefore critical that UCCS creates relationships and our university is dedicated to teaching innovation and entrepreneurship partnerships with these organizations to provide students in business, engineering with both opportunities and the arts and sciences. Colorado Springs has makerspaces, coworking spaces, incubators, accelerators and other resources to facilitate the development of startupspursue innovation and entrepreneurship. With all Many 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 universityexist, students have access to internships such as Startup Summer or educational resources such as Startup Weekendbut they could be better and more widely utilized.</span></span></span>
== Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts ==