Séminaire par Prof. Alexander Peterson, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Event details
| Date | 04.05.2016 |
| Hour | 12:00 › 13:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. Alexander Peterson, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
"Quantifying the negative impact of brain drain on the integration of European science"
Résumé
Despite positive trends in the globalization of R&D, recent studies of international collaboration show that national borders are still a formidable hindrance to scientific integration, notwithstanding directed policies aimed at reducing barriers – as specifically is the case for the European Research Area (ERA). Here we use the 2004/2007 European Union (EU) enlargement by 12 member states as a natural experiment to quantify the impact of EU efforts to expand and integrate the scientific competitiveness of the ERA. We find that levels of European cross-border collaboration would have been higher without EU enlargement, despite the new 2004/2007 EU entrants gaining access to EU resources incentivizing cross-border integration. To further illustrate the unintended consequence of the EU expansion, we use official high-skilled mobility statistics collected over the same period to identify brain drain – principally from entrant to incumbent EU member states – as a major factor underlying the divergence in cross-border integration between western and eastern Europe. These results challenge a central tenet of current and past ERA integration policies that unifying labor markets will increase the international competitiveness of Europe as a whole, calling attention to the need for better brain-return incentives and policies.
Bio
Dr. Petersen is assistant professor in the Analysis for Complex Economic Systems research unit at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. His research combines perspectives and methods from statistical physics, network science, computational social science, economics, and innovation studies in order to model science across multiple scales, from publications to careers and institutions.
Résumé
Despite positive trends in the globalization of R&D, recent studies of international collaboration show that national borders are still a formidable hindrance to scientific integration, notwithstanding directed policies aimed at reducing barriers – as specifically is the case for the European Research Area (ERA). Here we use the 2004/2007 European Union (EU) enlargement by 12 member states as a natural experiment to quantify the impact of EU efforts to expand and integrate the scientific competitiveness of the ERA. We find that levels of European cross-border collaboration would have been higher without EU enlargement, despite the new 2004/2007 EU entrants gaining access to EU resources incentivizing cross-border integration. To further illustrate the unintended consequence of the EU expansion, we use official high-skilled mobility statistics collected over the same period to identify brain drain – principally from entrant to incumbent EU member states – as a major factor underlying the divergence in cross-border integration between western and eastern Europe. These results challenge a central tenet of current and past ERA integration policies that unifying labor markets will increase the international competitiveness of Europe as a whole, calling attention to the need for better brain-return incentives and policies.
Bio
Dr. Petersen is assistant professor in the Analysis for Complex Economic Systems research unit at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. His research combines perspectives and methods from statistical physics, network science, computational social science, economics, and innovation studies in order to model science across multiple scales, from publications to careers and institutions.
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