TY - JOUR T1 - The Impact of a Research University in Silicon Valley JF - The Journal of Private Equity SP - 7 LP - 15 DO - 10.3905/jpe.2000.319972 VL - 4 IS - 1 AU - Thomas Byers AU - Robert Keeley AU - Anthony Leone AU - George Parker AU - Erkko Autio Y1 - 2000/11/30 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/4/1/7.abstract N2 - 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, ER -