# Stanford Industrial Park **Entity class:** Place **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition Stanford Industrial Park, created in the early 1950s and later renamed Stanford Research Park, converted Stanford land into a university-linked commercial technology district jointly shaped with Palo Alto. ## Chronological Proximity It emerged beside the [[wiki/Applied Electronics Laboratory|Applied Electronics Laboratory]]; [[wiki/Varian Associates|Varian Associates]] became its first tenant in 1953. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/Fred Terman|Terman]] persuaded Stanford's trustees to use land as an industrial substrate, connecting the university and [[wiki/Palo Alto|Palo Alto]] to firms including Varian, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Lockheed. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].