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Re:MIT-Trained Entrepreneurs Create Businesses With $2 Trill... by brunnock on Thursday February 19, 2009 @08:09AM (#487216)
MIT did a similar report in the 90s. I read it and found that they were claiming that HP was an MIT company (Hewlett and Packard met at Stanford).

I couldn't find a list of companies in the latest report, but I would take it with a grain of salt.

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Re:MIT-Trained Entrepreneurs Create Businesses With $2 Trill... by bd on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:30AM (#487443)
Exactly.

This reminds me of one thread some time ago here on HN about universities claiming numbers of Nobel Prizes awarded to people affiliated with them [1].

This "$2 Trillion" statistics has the same problem - one person can have affiliations with many universities (BSc, MSc, PhD, postdoc, faculty, all can be at a different place). Additionally, a company can have founders from more than one university.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=400119

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