In 1999, UC-Berkeley School of Information dean AnnaLee Saxenian discovered that Indian-born entrepreneurs had founded 7% of all Silicon Valley startups between 1980 and 1998.
Employers are increasingly looking for a new kind of graduate, says Dean AnnaLee Saxenian, one with the understanding and expertise to collaborate effectively across wider areas of expertise and functionality.
AnnaLee Saxenian, dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, since the mid-1990s has been documenting the rise of immigrant entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and other high-tech hotspots.