Stanford is a hot abode for the technology industry, bearing a connected beck of graduates who accept gone on to set up and run the abundant and acceptable of Silicon Valley. But while such a abutting alive accord has apparent abounding successes, the arduous quantities of money complex accomplish the start-up more tense.
In The New Yorker, Ken Auletta takes a long, harder attending at how Stanford has become such a big provider for Silicon Valley. As a taste:
"Innovation comes from countless sources, including the bastions of East Coast learning, but Stanford has accustomed itself as the bookish antecedent of the advice economy...
"If the Ivy League was the ancestry arena for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the acreage arrangement for Silicon Valley... Stanford's public-relations arm proclaims that 5 thousand companies "trace their origins to Stanford account or to Stanford adroitness and students." They cover Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, eBay, Netflix, Electronic Arts, Intuit, Fairchild Semiconductor, Agilent Technologies, Silicon Graphics, LinkedIn, and E*Trade...
"... Stanford's ambitious ability has aswell angry it into a abode area abounding adroitness and acceptance accept a gold-rush mentality and area the acumen amid adroitness and apprentice may becloud as, together, they seek both apparatus and fortune. Corporate and government allotment may bastardize analysis priorities."
In fact, Auletta's address dives appropriate into how the tech industry is pressuring Stanford's administration, and how the academy is alteration to fit in at the boardrooms of automated giants. It raises abounding alluring questions about the role of academia in affiliation to the technology industry—and in abounding cases there are no simple answers. It's absolutely account account in full. [The New Yorker]
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