IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/scippl/v35y2008i6p417-430.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Diffusion of knowledge through migration of scientific labour in India

Author

Listed:
  • Dinar Kale
  • David Wield
  • Joanna Chataway

Abstract

‘Brain drain’ is viewed as a curse for developing countries but analysis suggests it may provide crucial advantage to some countries. ‘Reverse brain drain’ of engineers and scientists trained in the USA or Europe can accelerate technological catch-up. Communities of returned scientists and engineers can provide skill and know-how to help local firms shift to higher value-added activities. However, transfer of knowledge through human mobility is not a straightforward process. This paper presents insights regarding diffusion of knowledge through migration of scientific labour, using case studies of innovative Indian pharmaceutical firms. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Suggested Citation

  • Dinar Kale & David Wield & Joanna Chataway, 2008. "Diffusion of knowledge through migration of scientific labour in India," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 35(6), pages 417-430, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:35:y:2008:i:6:p:417-430
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.3152/030234208X331245
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ferrucci, Edoardo, 2020. "Migration, innovation and technological diversion: German patenting after the collapse of the Soviet Union," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(9).
    2. Ramani, Shyama V. & Urias, Eduardo, 2018. "When access to drugs meets catch-up: Insights from the use of CL threats to improve access to ARV drugs in Brazil," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 47(8), pages 1538-1552.
    3. Thijs A. Velema, 2012. "The contingent nature of brain gain and brain circulation: their foreign context and the impact of return scientists on the scientific community in their country of origin," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 93(3), pages 893-913, December.
    4. Ekaterina L. Dyachenko, 2017. "Internal migration of scientists in Russia and the USA: the case of physicists," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 113(1), pages 105-122, October.
    5. Ganna KHARLAMOVA & Maksim SITNITSKIY, 2016. "Growing Regional Scientific Migration And Mobility: The European Union And The Eastern Partnership," EURINT, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 3, pages 210-234.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:35:y:2008:i:6:p:417-430. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/spp .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.