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I took the article to mean they were "reaching for Silicon Valley" in the sense that folks at the top (e.g., the Board of Regents or whomever is responsible for
by jfarmer 13y ago
I took the article to mean they were "reaching for Silicon Valley" in the sense that folks at the top (e.g., the Board of Regents or whomever is responsible for managing GT's endowment) were interested in establishing the kind of reputation for public/private collaboration that Stanford is known for, not necessarily that Stanford was constantly on the minds of Georgia Tech's students and faculty or that there was kind of "Stanford envy" at Georgia Tech.
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- rayiner 13y agoMy point is that even if the administration, understandably wants to model Stanford in ways, the students and faculty don't see Stanford or Silicon Valley as the model. The model is quite consciously MIT. It's a place where chairs are endowed by Boeing and Lockheed and getting a DARPA grant is more on people's minds than getting VC funding. Those affinities with traditional Big Industry drive the culture at GT.