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Stanford’s Start-Up Culture – Part 4
Highlights Risk taking, Research to change the world, Encouraging entrepreneurship, Faculty/industry, Low barrier to tech licensing [Descriptions by Alan Weissberger, video by Ken Pyle]
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Teaching Social Entrepreneurship – Part 5
Pairing Business & Engineering Schools to foster entrepreneurship; Baby incubators for the developing world as an example of good technology. [Descriptions by Alan Weissberger, video by Ken Pyle]
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Stanford’s Integration into Silicon Valley – Part 6
Get the Intellectual Property Out; Mutual Respect for industry/academia. [Descriptions by Alan Weissberger, video by Ken Pyle]
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On-Line Learning at Stanford – Part 7
MOOC experiment, mixed results and student opinions, exams, replacement for large lectures, professional education, etc. [Descriptions by Alan Weissberger, video by Ken Pyle]
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Prof. Hennessy’s Belief in Interdisciplinary, Balanced Education – Part 8
Building a foundation for additional education later; broad education for undergrads; purpose of grad school. [Descriptions by Alan Weissberger, video by Ken Pyle]
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What’s the value of a Doctorate degree (PhD or ScD)? – Part 9
Become independent, individual investigators in research & advanced development, but no open-ended research labs anymore. Financial vs. Happiness returns of a Doctorate?
