Immigration Policy: Highly Skilled Workers and U.S. Competitiveness and Innovation
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Immigration Policy: Highly Skilled Workers and U.S. Competitiveness and Innovation
Foreign-born residents—students, skilled workers, professionals, and entrepreneurs, whether visiting temporarily or staying permanently—make important contributions to the U.S. economy, particularly in science and high-tech innovation. So what can U.S. immigration policy do to capitalize on highly skilled workers’ ideas and talents, while also maximizing the contributions of native-born citizens? What kind of foreign-born workers does the United States want to gain, and under what conditions? What policy changes should be enacted to ensure that America retains and attracts the world’s top talent?
On February 7, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings and the Center for Science and Technology Policy at George Mason University hosted a forum on immigration policies toward the highly skilled and the reforms needed to capture the benefits of a high-skill immigrant workforce. Discussants also shared new research findings on immigration’s role in spurring innovation.
After the program, panelists took audience questions.
Agenda
Welcoming Remarks
Darrell M. West
Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation
Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies
David M. Hart
Former Nonresident Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program
Panel I – The Best and the Brightest in Academia and Beyond
Moderator: Mitch Waldrop
News Features Editor
Robert V. Hamilton, Ph.D
Wyle Inc.
Patrick Gaule
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sloan School of Management
B. Lindsay Lowell
Director, Policy Studies, Institute for the Study of International Migration - Georgetown University
Darrell M. West
Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation
Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies
Panel II – Highly Skilled Workers, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
Moderator: Kevin Finneran
Editor
Jeanne Batalova
Policy Analyst
Jennifer Hunt
Professor of Economics - Rutgers University
Ron Hira
Associate Professor of Public Policy
David M. Hart
Former Nonresident Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program
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