1. James Gibbons, Dean of Engineering School at Stanford University, defines Stanford spin-offs as a company that developed the product at Stanford University and in which the majority of founders came from Stanford University.
2. Definition of the MIT related company by Bank at Boston: at least one of the founders studied at NIT. It is significantly more liberal than the definition of the Stanford spin-off.
3. Fortune Magazine, October 26, 1998, page 136.
4. P/E: price to earnings ratio.
5. NPAT: net profit after taxes.