The economic impact guidelines make up one part of a wider set of tools that has been developed by APLU's Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity (CICEP). CICEP has been working for the last number of years on developing several tools in an attempt to help universities focus efforts not only on telling their economic engagement story well, but also growing, improving, and advancing their economic engagement enterprise and thereby accelerating economic development in their regions, nationally, and globally.