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The Global Brain Trade

Percentage of researchers who are immigrants Percentage of researchers who emigrate CH UK US UK AUSTRALIA GE FR FR US UK BELGIUM PE/CO/FR/AR CA/GE BRAZIL CH US UK US CANADA Only countries that account GE UK US for 10 percent or more of immigrants or emigrants are broken out. DENMARK US CA/UK FRANCE AR =Argentina AU = Australia US SW UK CA = Canada GERMANY CH = China CO = Colombia FR = France US GE = Germany INDIA IN = India IT = Italy KR = South Korea SP/GE/FR US UK FR/GE NL = The Netherlands ITALY PE = Peru RU = Russia SP = Spain KR/CH US SW = Switzerland UK = United Kingdom JAPAN US = United States IT GE US UK GE Source: "Foreign Born Scientists: Mobility Patterns for Sixteen Countries," by Chiara Franzoni, Giuseppe Scellato, and Paula Stephan, May 2012, National Bureau of Economic Research THE NETHERLANDS IT/FR/AR GE/UK/FR SPAIN RU GE US UK/GE SWEDEN GE US GE SWITZERLAND IT GE US AU CA UNITED KINGDOM IN CH CA/UK/AU/GE UNITED STATES 50% 30% 10% 10% 30%

The Global Brain Trade

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Which countries have the most foreign scientists, and which ones suffer from the worst brain drain? To answer these questions, researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Massachusetts... , conducted a Web-based survey of over 17 000 published scientists in 16 countries. (China wasn’t surveyed: The researchers tried but were unsuccessful in administering the survey to scientists there.) While the United States is, unsurprisingly, a popular destination for scientists from around the world, Switzerland actually has the highest percentage of immigrant scientists. On the other side of the coin, Japan is the most insular country surveyed, exchanging relatively little scientific talent with the rest of the world. 

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IEEE Spectrum

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National Bureau of Economic Research