The International Mobility of Talent and Innovation
New Evidence and Policy Implications
Published on 22. June 2017
Book
Hardback
322 pages
978-1-107-17424-5 (ISBN)
Description
The international mobility of talented individuals is a key part of globalization. In the quest to promote innovation and entrepreneurship, many governments have sought to attract skilled migrants from abroad, inciting both a global competition for talent and concerns about the displacement of domestic workers. This important new work investigates why skilled individuals migrate and how they shape innovation around the world. Using patent data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), it charts patterns of high-skilled migration worldwide. In addition, contributions by leading migration scholars review the latest research insights, discuss new approaches to studying high-skilled migration and present fresh evidence on the causes and consequences of greater talent mobility. This book will prove invaluable to policymakers seeking to understand how migration policy choices affect innovation outcomes as well as academic researchers interested in the migration-innovation nexus.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
624 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-17424-5 (9781107174245)
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Carsten Fink | Ernest Miguelez
The International Mobility of Talent and Innovation
New Evidence and Policy Implications
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Persons
Carsten Fink is Chief Economist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva. Before joining WIPO, he was Professor of International Economics at the Universitaet St Gallen, Switzerland and held visiting scholar positions at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. Prior to his academic appointments, Professor Fink worked for more than ten years at the World Bank. Ernest Miguelez is Researcher at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), attached to Universite Montesquieu, Bordeaux IV. He received his Ph.D. from the Universitat de Barcelona in 2013. He previously held a research economist position at the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Content
1. Introduction: the international mobility of talent and innovation: new evidence and policy implications Carsten Fink and Ernest Miguelez; Part I. The International Mobility of Inventors: Data and Stylized Facts: 2. International mobility of knowledge workers and high-skilled migration Caglar OEzden and Christopher Parsons; 3. Inventor data for research on migration and innovation: a survey and a pilot Stefano Breschi, Francesco Lissoni and Gianluca Tarasconi; 4. Measuring the international mobility of inventors: a new database Ernest Miguelez and Carsten Fink; 5. The determinants of the international mobility of inventors Carsten Fink, Ernest Miguelez and Julio Raffo; Part II. Migration, IP, Diasporas, Knowledge Flows and Innovation: 6. US high-skilled immigration, innovation, and entrepreneurship: empirical approaches and evidence William Kerr; 7. Diaspora networks, knowledge flows and brain drain Ajay K. Agrawal; 8. Intellectual property protection and the brain drain Alireza Naghavi; 9. Brain drain, intellectual property rights and development in Africa Francois Kabore.