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Stanford University
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Stanford produced the largest number of founders/Co-Founders
Source : http://info.crunchbase.com/2013/08/12/entrepreneurs-and-universities/ This statistics created by the data of 6,150 founders from 4,885 companies
Stanford Alumni companies…
What makes Stanford such an unique and a successful university
• History• Academics• Policy• Geography
Stanford is founded by an entrepreneur, Leland Stanford and his wife Jane in 1891
(From the left) Leland Stanford , his wife Jane, and Leland Stanford, Jr.
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Fred Terman, the dean of engineering school, encouraged Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard to found a company
(From the left) Dave Packard , Bill Hewlett , and Fred TermanSince 1939
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Post WW , a research grant from a government Ⅱaccelerated numbers of researches at Stanford
History
Year
1950 1,2671960 14,8031970 57,0431980 118,9421990 245,244 87.5%2000 391,156 84.3%2009 582,274 77.3%
A research grant from thegovernment
Unit : $ KPercentage represents the ratio of a research grant amount provided bythe U.S. government out of a total research grant amount provided
Two institutes became a hub for Stanford to collaborate with companies
Stanford Research Institute since 1946
Stanford Research Park since 1951
What makes Stanford such an unique and a successful university
• History• Academics• Policy• Geography
Stanford’s seven school has been top ranked among universities in the world
Academics
Name of School Undergrad Students
Graduate Students
No of Faculty
Graduate School of Business - 928 230+School of Earth Sciences 134 309 55Graduate School of Education - 365 52School of Engineering 883 3,452 240+
School of Humanities & Sciences 2,320 2,162 500+
School of Law 636 140+
School of Medicine 927 830
Total 6,887※ 8,779 2,000+
※ Including 3,550 students who have not decided their majorData: Undergrad student and Graduate student – as of 2010/11, Faculty – web search
Multidisciplinary approach created significant value at Stanford
Academics
What makes Stanford such an unique and a successful university
• History• Academics• Policy• Geography
Unique policies make Stanford be different and be successful
Policy
• Collaboration with industry
• Investing in startups
• “Stopping out”
• Plenty of resources
Industry-academia collaboration has been very active at Stanford
・ Stanford Research Park and Stanford Research institute・ Stanford Technology Licensing Office founded in 1970・ The Bayh-Dole Act in 1980・ Licensing income comparison
As of 2009/10, unit : $M
Rank Name of collegeLicensingincome
No. ofStartups
No. ofLicensing
No. of filedpatent
Total researchbudget
1 Northwestern 162 3 31 128 4002 Columbia 154 13 51 57 6043 NYU 113 5 38 29 308
10 Stanford 65 9 77 128 83327 Harvard 12 8 65 46 704
Start X, non profit organization, provides a path for students to start a business
Policy
87 companies founded Since 2011
What makes Stanford such an unique and a successful university
• History• Academics• Policy• Geography
Venture Capital up the roadGeography
Future of Stanford