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SUMMARY:Séminaire par Prof. Alexander Peterson\, IMT Institute for Advanc
 ed Studies Lucca
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DTEND:20160504T133000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Alexander Peterson\, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies 
 Lucca\n"Quantifying the negative impact of brain drain on the integration 
 of European science"Résumé\nDespite 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\, notw
 ithstanding directed policies aimed at reducing barriers – as specifical
 ly 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 expe
 riment to quantify the impact of EU efforts to expand and integrate the sc
 ientific competitiveness of the ERA. We find that levels of European cross
 -border collaboration would have been higher without EU enlargement\, desp
 ite the new 2004/2007 EU entrants gaining access to EU resources incentivi
 zing cross-border integration. To further illustrate the unintended conseq
 uence of the EU expansion\, we use official high-skilled mobility statisti
 cs collected over the same period to identify brain drain – principally 
 from entrant to incumbent EU member states – as a major factor underlyin
 g the divergence in cross-border integration between western and eastern E
 urope. These results challenge a central tenet of current and past ERA int
 egration policies that unifying labor markets will increase the internatio
 nal competitiveness of Europe as a whole\, calling attention to the need f
 or better brain-return incentives and policies.Bio\nDr. Petersen is assist
 ant professor in the Analysis for Complex Economic Systems research unit a
 t the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. His research combines perspec
 tives and methods from statistical physics\, network science\, computation
 al social science\, economics\, and innovation studies in order to model s
 cience across multiple scales\, from publications to careers and instituti
 ons.
LOCATION: EPFL\, ODY 4.03\, VIP Room http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=19&recenter
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