Sensors, networks, and clouds -- Keyboards, screens, and mice -- Robotic exoskeletons and social, companion, and service robots -- BCI, BNCI, and BMI -- Advanced prosthetics, neuroprosthetics, and artificial limbs -- Health and human services -- Transport and mobility -- Training, teaching, and...

We examine the issue of technical assistance versus brain drain repatriation as alternative strategies for transferring scarce skills to a skill-poor economy. Technical assistance relies mainly on expatriate skills and labor from the host country, while brain drain repatriation seeks to effect a...

International development assistance from richer to poorer (“developing”) economies accounts for major flows of capital, human resources and technical assistance. While the net direction of these flows remains a topic of hot debate, there have been several barriers identified to the...