Linking Talent Abroad with a Drive for Innovation at Home: A Study of the Russian Technological Diaspora

Introduction

“…The book is the outcome of over three hundred in-depth interviews conducted over a three-year period (from 2013 through 2015) in Rus sia and around the world by a team of Rus sian, US, French, and Dutch scholars. 3 While the prac ti tion ers we have studied are regularly covered by popu lar media (Bowles 2017;Shane, Sanger, and Perlroth 2017), discussed in business publications, and reported upon in foreign-policy think tanks, they have as a whole received scant scholarly attention, and almost none in academic Anglophone lit er a ture (Bardham and Kroll 2006;Borjas and Doran 2012;Feakins 2009;Freinkman, Gonchar, and Kuznetsov 2013;Ganguli 2015;Lonkila 2011). The Rus sian it sphere is one of successful private enterprises, greatly varying in size.…”