Our core values support our mission and vision to serve as a community‐based innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem through a commitment to:

• Being open and welcome to all: any person, any discipline, any field, and any idea

• Respecting new ideas and new concepts, and the dialogue around these exchanges

• Promoting the experience gained during the process of creativity, ideation, and problem solving as important as the end goal

• Being a safe space to fail and allow failure to happen

• Honoring the individual and their abilities, along with all of his/her/their dreams, ideas, processes, and approaches to problem solving and creativity

• Experimenting, making, and exploring as a method for solving problems

• Dreaming big, having fun, and getting work done

The Southern Colorado Innovation Link’s (SCIL) mission is to leverage a robust innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem to encourage the development and commercialization of intellectual property, to support IIECM, to promote the success and growth of commerce, and to foster sustained regional prosperity.

Partner Spotlight • Southern Colorado Innovation Link (SCIL)

A collaboration among more than twenty regional partners, SCIL seeks to make Southern Colorado a preferred destination to incubate and grow innovative ideas, products and business. SCIL aims to fulfill its mission through coordination of resources, hands-on technical assistance, mentorship, experienced leadership, and access to capital, all building on the existing innovation clusters in Advanced Manufacturing (AM) and Infrastructure Engineering (IE). SCIL will measure success by its effectiveness in helping inventors, innovators, entrepreneurs, creatives, and makers (IIECM) develop, protect, and commercialize their intellectual property; assisting startups in creating viable businesses, and helping businesses to thrive and grow.