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Drawing on fresh data, this book investigates why talented individuals migrate and how they shape innovation around the world.
List of contents
1. Introduction: the international mobility of talent and innovation: new evidence and policy implications Carsten Fink and Ernest Miguélez; Part I. The International Mobility of Inventors: Data and Stylized Facts: 2. International mobility of knowledge workers and high-skilled migration Çaglar Özden 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 Miguélez and Carsten Fink; 5. The determinants of the international mobility of inventors Carsten Fink, Ernest Miguélez 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 François Kaboré.
About the author
Carsten Fink is Chief Economist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva. Before joining WIPO, he was Professor of International Economics at the Universität 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 Université 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.
Summary
Why do talented individuals migrate and how do they shape innovation around the world? This important work reviews the latest research, provides new evidence based on international patent records and identifies the policy implications. It will interest policymakers and academic researchers studying globalization.
