Stanford is a live sign of the zodiac for the engineering industriousness , producing a constant stream of graduates who have gone on to do up and execute the outstanding and good of Silicon Valley . But while such a closemouthed workings relationship has go out many achiever , the filmy quantity of money involved make the set - up progressively tense .
In The New Yorker , Ken Auletta takes a long , hard flavour at how Stanford has become such a big provider for Silicon Valley . Asa taste :
“ Innovation total from uncounted sources , admit the bastion of East Coast learning , but Stanford has established itself as the intellectual link of the selective information economy …
“ If the Ivy League was the breeding earth for the elite group of the American Century , Stanford is the farm organisation for Silicon Valley … Stanford ’s public - relations subdivision laud that five thousand company “ hunt their origins to Stanford ideas or to Stanford faculty and students . ” They include Hewlett - Packard , Yahoo , Cisco Systems , Sun Microsystems , eBay , Netflix , Electronic Arts , Intuit , Fairchild Semiconductor , Agilent Technologies , Silicon Graphics , LinkedIn , and E*Trade …
“ … Stanford ’s entrepreneurial acculturation has also turned it into a home where many faculty and student have a gold - upsurge mental capacity and where the distinction between faculty and student may dim as , together , they seek both invention and fortune . incarnate and government funding may distort research anteriority . ”
In fact , Auletta ’s report dives properly into how the technical school industry is pressuring Stanford ’s organization , and how the honorary society is switch to match in at the boardroom of industrial giants . It raise many captivating questions about the role of academia in relative to the technology industry — and in many causa there are no gentle answers . It ’s definitely worth reading in full . [ The New Yorker ]
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