Intellectual Property Protection and the Brain Drain

Naghavi, Alireza

doi:10.1017/9781316795774.009

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“…This is important to the extent that technologies that immigrants produce in the United States can be shared throughout the world. Placing aside difficult questions about diffusion lags and intellectual property protection rights (e.g., Naghavi 2013, Kaboré 2013, allowing the migration of skilled talent to places where those skills can be best utilized provides a foundation for greater prosperity for all. This is true within countries, with great entrepreneurial talent flowing to Silicon Valley from many parts of the United States, and the same gains can happen across countries.…”

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

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High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been rapidly growing over the last three decades. In terms of quality, the average skilled immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but conditional on educational attainment of comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest achievers (e.g., Nobel Prize winners). Studies regarding the impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences in the short-run, while the results in the long-run are more varied and much less certain. Immigrants in the United States aid business and technology exchanges with their home countries, but the overall effect that the migration has on the home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship, except that it is rapidly growing in importance.

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Intellectual Property Protection and the Brain Drain

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