RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Impact of a Research University in Silicon Valley
JF The Journal of Private Equity
FD Institutional Investor Journals
SP 7
OP 15
DO 10.3905/jpe.2000.319972
VO 4
IS 1
A1 Thomas Byers
A1 Robert Keeley
A1 Anthony Leone
A1 George Parker
A1 Erkko Autio
YR 2000
UL https://pm-research.com/content/4/1/7.abstract
AB This study estimates the number of technology companies fromed by Stanford graduates and faculty in the San Francisco Bay Area. It finds that 9% of all graduates (and about 22% of technical graduates and a similar fraction of science and technology faculty) have formed high-tech companies, with about 1,900 companies currently active. Those companies employ 138,000 people locally, approximately 37% of local high-tech employment. A model combining survival rates, lags between graduation and entrepreneurship, and a growing pool of graduates,