Globalization and the Flow of Knowledge

Description

The mobility of skilled labor is transforming the flow of knowledge around the world. As U.S.-educated engineers and professionals return to their home countries, they are turning what once was a brain drain into a two-way process of brain circulation. These professionals are transferring to developing regions the technology and managerial know-how that once resided exclusively in advanced economies like the U.S. This process is fueling the emergence of new centers of technology entrepreneurship and creating new competitors for Silicon Valley and foreshadows persistent global skill shortages in coming decades.

Dates and Locations

Danville

March 21, 2007
Blackhawk Museum

Mountain View

March 22, 2007
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AnnaLee Saxenian

Saxenian is dean and professor in the School of Information and professor in the department of city and regional planning at Berkeley. Her most recent book, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006), explores how the “brain circulation” by immigran…

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Steven Weber

Faculty Director, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
Professor, I School & Political Science

Steven Weber is a specialist in International Relations and International Political Economy with expertise in international and national security; the impact of technology on national systems of innovatio…

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