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Global Mobility of Research Scientists: The Economics of Who Goes Where and Why brings together information on how the localization and mobility of academic researchers contributes to the production of knowledge.
The text answers several questions, including "what characterizes nationally and internationally mobile researchers?" and "what are the individual and social implications of increased mobility of research scientists?"
Eight independent, but coordinated chapters address these and other questions, drawing on a set of newly developed databases covering 30 countries, including the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and China, among others.
List of contents
- Introduction
Aldo Geuna
- What Do We Know of the Mobility of Research Scientists and of Its Impact on Scientific Production
Ana Fernandez-Zubieta, Aldo Geuna, Cornelia Lawson
- International Mobility of Research Scientists: Lessons from GlobSci
Chiara Franzoni , Giuseppe Scellato, Paula Stephan,
- International Mobility of Researchers in Biomedial Sciences: A Comparison of the US and the UK
Ana Fernandez-Zubieta, Aldo Geuna, Rodrigo Kataishi, Cornelia Lawson, Manuel Toselli
- Mobility and Productivity of Research Scientists
Ana Fernandez-Zubieta, Aldo Geuna, Cornelia Lawson
- Who Leaves and Who Stays? Evidence on Immigrant Selection from the Collapse of Soviet Science
Ina Ganguli
- China's "Great Leap Forward" in Science and Engineering
Richard Freeman, Wei Huang
- Which Factors Influence the International Mobility of Research Scientists?
Silvia Appelt, Brigitte van Beuzekom, Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Roberto de Pinho
- Destinations of Mobile European Researchers: Europe versus the United States
Reinhilde Veugelers , Linda VanBouwel
- Appointment, Promotion, and Mobility of Bioscience Researchers in Japan
Cornelia Lawson, Sotaro Shibayama
- Moving Out of Academic Research: Why Scientists Stop Doing Research
Aldo Geuna, Sotaro Shibayama
- Conclusion
Aldo Geuna
About the author
Aldo Geuna is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis, University of Torino and Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto. With a Ph.D. from PhD from Maastricht University, he has served as a Senior Lecturer at SPRU, University of Sussex; Senior Research Fellow at RSCAS - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies - European University Institute; and Research Fellow at BETA, Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg). His core research area is the socio-economic analysis of university research behavior and its links to innovation and economic growth.
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"The international mobility of scientists and innovators fundamentally shapes our world, but measurement is always difficult. This book fills that gap and pushes forward our understanding." --William Kerr, Harvard Business School
"This is an incredible contribution about researchers on the move. The book provides new theoretical perspectives and quantitative empirical evidence about the motives and implications of researchers' mobility in a contrasting international perspective. This book is a must for scientists, politicians and university administrations interested in attracting talents from all over the world." --Javier Revilla Diez, University of Cologne
"The timely volume provides a valuable global perspective on the phenomenon of scientific mobility. It appears destined to be a key resource for both scholars and policymakers interested in understanding the movement of scientists around the world and the scientific and economic implications of this mobility." --Aaron Levine, Georgia Institute of Technology
