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SUMMARY:Seminar by Dr. Ernest Miguelez\, University of Bordeaux
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ernest Miguelez\, Groupe de recherche en économie théori
 que et appliquée\, University of Bordeaux\n"The New Huguenots: ethnic net
 works and the international diffusion of ideas"Abstract\nWe assess the rol
 e of ethnic ties in the international diffusion of technical knowledge by 
 means of a database of patents filed by US-resident inventors of foreign o
 rigin\, which we identify through name analysis. We consider ten important
  countries of origin of highly skilled migration to the US\, both Asian an
 d European\, and test whether foreign inventors’ patents are disproporti
 onately cited by: (i) inventors residing in their country of origin (brain
  gain effect)\; (ii) co-ethnic migrants living in a third country (interna
 tional diaspora effect). The underlying idea is to see whether migrant inv
 entors from the same country of origin connect to each other and favor the
  diffusion of knowledge across countries more disproportionately than amon
 g inventors from different origins. Preliminary results indicate that brai
 n gain exists for China\, Russia\, South Korea and France. For France\, as
  well as Italy and Japan\, brain gain effects occur mostly within multinat
 ional corporations. Interestingly\, we do not see this effect for one of t
 he most important inventor diasporas in the US\, namely the Indian one. In
 terestingly\, for India (as well as other Asian countries) we find an inte
 rnational diaspora effect\, but not to the benefit of the home country –
  which presents some analogy with findings in the trade literature (Felber
 mayr et al.\, 2010). Both the brain gain and the international diaspora ef
 fects bear less weight than other knowledge transmission channels\, such a
 s co-invention networks and multinational companies.Keywords: migration\, 
 diaspora\, diffusion\, inventors\, patentsAuthors: Stefano Breschi\, Franc
 esco Lissoni\, Ernest Miguelez
LOCATION:EPFL\, ODY 4.03\, VIP Room http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=19&recenter_
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