FrontMatter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 High-Skilled Immigration and Ideas in a World of Global Education and Research Collaborations -- 3 Skilled Migration Trends and Policy Evolution: A Multilateral Overview -- 4 Comparative System Design and...

Introduction -- Increasing U.S. competitiveness by improving knowledge creation and technology diffusion -- Workforce development -- Supporting supply chains and small and medium-sized enterprises -- Sustainability and the future of the Institutes -- Key points made by presenters during the...

Today's knowledge economy is driven in large part by the nation's capacity to innovate. One of the defining features of the U.S. economy is a high level of entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurs in the United States see opportunities and are willing and able to assume risk to bring new...

The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in the United States represent a much smaller proportion of the workforce than they do in countries such as Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom,...