Stanford University

Stanford CA. $40.6B endowment managed by Stanford Management Company. $1.9B annual research budget. Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) — one of most productive tech transfer offices in US. Stanford Research Park — 150+ companies including HP, Tesla, SAP. Key institutes: HAI (AI), d.school (design thinking), Precourt (energy), Bio-X (biosciences), Woods (environment), Hoover Institution (policy).