In the final years of the twentieth century, brain drain, skills shortages and lack of career opportunities have become issues of major concern for policy-makers concerned with R&D in government, academia, and industry. Labour mobility across political borders, especially among highly skilled...

To obtain “1.2 million additional research personnel” necessary to “irrigate” the science-based industries, EU stresses, it is not sufficient to increase the investment in research alone. The motivation behind several brain drain policies implemented in Europe in recent years is to stop...

How does inventors' migration affect international talent allocation, knowledge diffusion, and productivity growth? To answer this question, I build a novel two-country innovation-led endogenous growth model, where heterogeneous inventors produce innovations, learn from others and make dynamic...

This paper highlights talent mapping/assessment and the need of ensuring talent availability in organization to support individual, group performances, and organizational success. The availability of appropriate number of talent, people with high performances and potentials, at the right time...