The Contribution of International Graduate Students to US Innovation

• Tác giả: Gnanaraj Chellaraj
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 259.24 Pastoral care of college students
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 327080
• Chủ đề: 1. Geographic Labor Mobility; 2. Higher Education and Research Institutions I230; 3. Immigrant Workers J610; 4. Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives O310; 5. Intellectual Property Rights O340

Tóm tắt

The impact of international students in the United States on innovative activity is estimated using a model of idea generation. Results indicate that the presence of foreign graduate students has a significant and positive impact on both future patent applications and future patents awarded to university and non-university institutions. Our central estimates suggest that a 10% increase in the number of foreign graduate students would raise patent applications by 4.5%, university patent grants by 6.8% and non-university patent grants by 5.0%. Thus, reductions in foreign graduate students from visa restrictions could significantly reduce US innovative activity. Increases in skilled immigration also have a positive, but smaller, impact on patenting.