Engineering Deans Built Silicon Valley's Ecosystem — Could That Happen Today?
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-29
While teaching on cities and progress, the author reflects on how much innovation policy was once driven by engineering deans like Stanford's Terman and MIT's Bush, who built entire academic-industry ecosystems. He questions whether an academic dean today could or would attempt the same, noting we now select for very different traits.
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