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113Follow the Money: Engineering at Stanford and UC Berkeley During the Rise of Silicon ValleyMinerva 47 (4): 367-390. 2009.A comparison of the engineering schools at UC Berkeley and Stanford during the 1940s and 1950s shows that having an excellent academic program is necessary but not sufficient to make a university entrepreneurial. Key factors that made Stanford more entrepreneurial than Cal during this period were superior leadership and a focused strategy. The broader institutional context mattered as well. Stanford did not have the same access to state funding as public universities and some private universitie…Read more
Stanford, California, United States of America