Stanford University has a deep history in entrepreneurship and technological innovation. For more than a century, the university has incubated ideas, educated entrepreneurs and fostered breakthrough technologies that have been instrumental in the rise and constant regeneration of Silicon Valley,...

Ethnic and immigration status may play a role in entrepreneurship and innovation, yet the impact of university entrepreneurship education on this relationship is under-explored. This paper examines the persistence and differences in entrepreneurship of Stanford Alumni by ethnicity and...

Institutions and the environment matter for innovation, but which institutions matter more? How do they matter at a more micro-level? It is clear from work in institutional economics that the levels and modes of innovative and entrepreneurial activity should be affected by the surrounding...