A nice quote from Businessweek, worth repeating:
U.S. education gets rapped, too. India and China produce more scientists and engineers than the U.S., and international students who attend American universities generally must return home as soon as they’ve graduated. “We’re forcing these people to do their productive work elsewhere,” says Mark Chandler, general counsel of Cisco Systems. “They should have a green card stapled to their admittance letter.”
We agree heartily with that paragraph. Of course, they start this article off with:
“For the first time in 2009, non-Americans were granted more U.S. patents than resident inventors, accounting for 50.7% of new grants”
As global citizens, we wonder if this really is a bad thing. Then again, maybe that is why we’ll never make good politicians (nor, apparently, mainstream financial magazine writers).
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