Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?

Miguélez, Ernest; Temgoua, Claudia Noumedem

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2019.103914

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“…Importantly, these migrant networks work as a "knowledge bridge" between the home and host countries. Similar results are found in Marino et al (2020) and Miguelez and Noumedem Temgoua (2020) and can be observed in internal migration within a country. Kim and Lee (2019) have similar findings in analyzing a large panel of 154 countries from 1990 to 2011 that focuses on the networks that skilled immigrants from both in their home country as well as the country they emigrate to.…”

Section: Do More Highly Skilled Workers Cause Innovation?supporting

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The Political Economy of Skilled Workers and Innovation

Bansak

Bender

Coon

2021

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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This chapter examines the link between skilled workers and innovation, and the political economy that affects this relationship. With a focus on the current state of research in this area, the chapter first summarizes the new evidence on the connections between skilled labor and innovation relating to knowledge development, entrepreneurship, teams, diversity, and brain drain. The second section discusses the possibility for reverse causalitynamely, that innovation can be a driver of the demand for high-skilled labor. In the following section, connections are made between public policies related to education systems, immigration, patent systems, intellectual property, public-private partnerships and amenities, and the possible effect on the level of skilled workers in various labor markets. The recent research is largely focused on the USA and OECD countries, and empirical evidence is provided using current data that corroborates the results of many of the reviewed studies. The final section lists resources for researchers aiming to move forward on the frontier of this line of research.

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Section: Do More Highly Skilled Workers Cause Innovation?supporting

confidence: 88%

The Political Economy of Skilled Workers and Innovation

Bansak

Bender

Coon

2021

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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“…In a recent study, Miguelez and Noumedem Temgoua (2019) argue that migrant inventors, especially those employed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields (STEM migration) represent important channels of knowledge production and diffusion. Therefore, policymakers should focus more on finding strategies which support and consolidate relations between STEM migrants and non-migrant fellows, through suitable knowledge networks, in both sending and receiving country.…”

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The Effects of Highly-Educated Immigrants on Innovation in Three Developed European Countries

Sinoi

2020

Journal of Social and Economic Statistics

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In the current globalized world, migration represents a topic of great interest, generating advantages and downsides as well, both for the people and the communities implicated. Highly-educated migrants represent a key factor in fostering innovation, productivity and economic growth, and promote knowledge diffusion/distribution in both directions, from origin to destination country and vice versa. This research investigates the effects of highly-educated immigrants on the number of patents (a good proxy for measuring innovation activities), in the case of Austria, Finland and Sweden, between 2011 and 2017. For the empirical analysis of the study case, we used panel data and developed a multiple linear regression model estimated through the ordinary least squares method (OLS), at the country-level. In line with the vast existing literature, the main finding of this paper is that highly-educated immigrants, representing external factors of innovation, have a positive and significant impact on the number of patent applications in all three receiving countries. Moreover, financial support in R&D (in different sectors) and investments in human capital (from diverse fields) serve as internal factors of innovation and also contribute vastly to the enhancement of innovation.

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“…In addition, this study, in contrast to those listed below, focuses on the individual experience of academics, as the central agents of both intellectual capital management processes and academic migration. It is the factors of personal motivation and intentions, according to researchers, that reflect the trends of academic migration most fully and can be used for predicting and further factor analysis of this process in quantitative research (Vangen, C., 2016;Van Holm, Wu and Welch, 2019;Tarasyev and Agarkov, 2019;Miguelez and Temgoua, 2020).…”

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Causes and Consequences of the Migration of Scientists and Students from the Brics Countries to Developed Economies

Khakhuk

Morgunova

Nosenko

et al. 2022

EJKM

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One of the major problems in the relationship between the Global South and the Global North is the the drain of intellectual capital from the economies and education systems of the most developed countries of the Global South, which bothers both developing countries and some European ones. The purpose of the study is to reveal the reasons for the migration of scientists and students from Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, South Africa (BRICS countries) and identify the consequences of the process through the example of a Russian university by studying the characteristics of personal experience and motivation of students and teachers. The research is devoted to the study of academic activity abroad and the attitude of 360 four- and five-year students and 321 teachers at Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, the Russian Federation) towards the practice. The survey results revealed that a relatively small number of respondents (31.07% of teachers and 9.03% of students) have experience of foreign academic activity; the large majority of participants highly assessed the possibility of studying and working abroad (4.87 and 3.48 on a 5-point Likert scale among teachers and students, respectively). The results of the study are in line with the findings of similar studies on academic migration in other BRICS countries; therefore, they can be extrapolated in a broader context. In particular, according to all respondents, the possibility of repeated or circular migration is extremely low (0.88 and 1.61). The research results can help to manage international research and exchange programs, as well as to regulate university training programs and academic migration. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the motivation of scientists and students on academic migrating and their assessment of migration intentions based on an example of a single educational institution and region.

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Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?

Cited by 52 publications

References 87 publications

The Political Economy of Skilled Workers and Innovation

The Political Economy of Skilled Workers and Innovation

The Effects of Highly-Educated Immigrants on Innovation in Three Developed European Countries

Causes and Consequences of the Migration of Scientists and Students from the Brics Countries to Developed Economies

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