Does scientific and engineering talent flow as freely as capital between the world's regions of economic activity and opportunity? Many countries, whether developing ones like Taiwan and Malaysia, or industrialized countries like Germany and Canada, base their economic development policies on the idea that it does, or at least that it could. Hence they channel state resources to startup companies and offer inducements to scientists and engineers to staff them, particularly their own expatriates who are working in technology ventures in the United States and other developed countries.
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