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International Mobility of Engineers and the Rise of Entrepreneurship in the Periphery

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By 2000, over one-third of Silicon Valley's high-skilled workers were foreign-born, and overwhelmingly from Asia. These US-educated engineers are transforming developmental opportunities for formerly peripheral regions as they build professional and business connections to their home countries.

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  • AnnaLee Saxenian, 2006. "International Mobility of Engineers and the Rise of Entrepreneurship in the Periphery," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2006-142, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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