When you’re talking engineering colleges, names like MIT and Stanford pop up.  When you think of technology you really think about Silicon Valley in the Bay Area of California.  You may even think about Cambridge, MA (its a little less known but still important startup bed).

Well, considering the prestige of those colleges is it any wonder that all the industry sticks around?  But honestly, is it really the academics themselves that are creating those entrepreneurs?  The video bellow has an interesting thought…

What’s the interesting thought?  Not that these colleges have good academics (for there are quite a few colleges with just as good if not better academics), but rather that they work with their students after graduating, not finding jobs, but creating them.  The universities encourage their students to start their own companies and work with their students in licensing of intellectual property, and encourage their professors to consult for the new companies being created by students.

Honestly, when you look at it, that’s quite brilliant, and it seems to work.

That’s scores different from how my college is (they claim ownership of all of my classwork with no ability for me to license it back, and the very thought of me F/OSS’ing my graduate thesis is obscene).  I guess we know who’s method works better….