The Indo-Asian News service reports that most of immigrants from India and five other nations who started one fourth of the technology and engineering companies in the United States in the last 10 years were not educated in elite institutions. According to researchers at Duke University and the University of California at Berkeley, 25.3 percent of the companies started between 1995-2005 had at least one foreign-born key founder. Immigrant-founded companies produced $52 billion in sales and employed 450,000 workers in 2005. The majority of these immigrant entrepreneurs came from India, Britain, China, Taiwan, Japan and Germany. These immigrant founders were educated in a diverse set of universities in both their home countries and across the United States. No single U.S. institution stands out as a single source of immigrant founders.

For more on immigrant founders:
- see this story from The Indo-Asian News Service