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Scientific mobility policies: How Portuguese scientists envisage the return home

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This paper addresses the mobility of scientists and its implications for countries with weaker scientific and technological systems. It focuses on the “return dilemma” and, using the Portuguese case as empirical setting, discusses the conditions for return, the diaspora option and the role of policies in minimising the impacts of unbalanced flows. We propose a method to identify and locate key expatriate scientists (a basic problem in mobility research) and conduct an exploratory application of that methodology in a specific field, in order to collect some information on scientists' trajectories as well as gaining some preliminary insights on their attitudes towards the home country. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Margarida Fontes, 2007. "Scientific mobility policies: How Portuguese scientists envisage the return home," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 34(4), pages 284-298, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:34:y:2007:i:4:p:284-298
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    1. Carolina Cañibano & F. Javier Otamendi & Francisco Solís, 2011. "International temporary mobility of researchers: a cross-discipline study," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 89(2), pages 653-675, November.
    2. Horta, Hugo & Patrício, Maria Teresa, 2016. "Setting-up an international science partnership program: A case study between Portuguese and US research universities," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 113(PB), pages 230-239.
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    7. Pedro Aceituno-Aceituno & Joaquín Danvila-del-Valle & Abel González García & Carlos Bousoño-Calzón, 2021. "Scientific Mobility, Training and Entrepreneurial Skills in Health Sciences: The Spanish Case," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-22, February.
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    9. Baruffaldi, Stefano H. & Landoni, Paolo, 2012. "Return mobility and scientific productivity of researchers working abroad: The role of home country linkages," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 41(9), pages 1655-1665.
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