# Stanford Research Park **Aliases:** Stanford Industrial Park **Entity class:** University-linked research and industrial district ## Definition **Stanford Research Park** is the later name of Stanford Industrial Park, the early-1950s university research park that converted Stanford land into a commercial technology substrate beside Palo Alto. ## Chronological Proximity Its formation coincided with the [[wiki/Applied Electronics Laboratory|Applied Electronics Laboratory]], Cold War electronics funding, and the growth of [[wiki/Varian Associates|Varian Associates]], [[wiki/Hewlett-Packard|Hewlett-Packard]], and Lockheed in the Stanford–Palo Alto corridor. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/Stanford University|Stanford]] owned the land, [[wiki/Palo Alto|Palo Alto]] shared the local institutional setting, and [[wiki/Fred Terman|Fred Terman]] persuaded university leadership to use the park to cluster research, manufacturing, and spinout firms. ## Collection Routes [[wiki/Stanford Industrial Park|Stanford Industrial Park]] · [[wiki/Military Origins of Silicon Valley|Military Origins of Silicon Valley]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]]