Understanding immigration in a national systems of innovation framework

David M Hart

Science and Public Policy, 2007, vol. 34, issue 1, 45-53

Abstract: This paper argues that the systems of innovation analytic framework affords valuable insights into the impact of highly-skilled immigrants on innovation processes in developed countries. The paper first reviews why highly-skilled migration has risen on the agenda of policy-makers and researchers and sets forth my interpretation of the systems of innovation framework. It then builds on this interpretation by arguing that the interaction between immigrants and the organizations and institutions into which they are inserted by a national system can (under some circumstances) affect the system's capacity for innovation by changing transaction costs and the management of uncertainty. Although it tackles just one aspect of the complex puzzle presented by global flows of skilled people, the paper prepares the conceptual ground for a broader assault on this important issue. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2007
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