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caltech has had much more patents than stanford in the last few years...despite being less than 1/7th its size...
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<p>I agree that Caltech is a patent machine and Stanford never has been. However, I doubt that that hurts Stanford much. I doubt that many people would disagree that Stanford has been an extraordinarily successful university in terms of commercializing technology in the least few decades. Let's face it. Stanford basically 'made' Silicon Valley, which is the most dynamic technology hub in the world, and which other nations in the world have repeatedly attempted to copy without success. Granted, Stanford didn't do so with patents, but, frankly, Stanford didn't * need * to do so with patents.</p>