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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 f

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.

bd 18y ago
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 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=400119