Immigrants Crucial To Innovation 463
gollum123 sends this excerpt from the NY Times:
"Arguing against immigration policies that force foreign-born innovators to leave the United States, a new study (PDF) to be released on Tuesday shows that immigrants played a role in more than three out of four patents at the nation's top research universities. Conducted by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a nonprofit group co-founded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, the study notes that nearly all the patents were in science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called STEM fields that are a crucial driver of job growth. ... The Partnership for a New American Economy released a paper in May saying that other nations were aggressively courting highly skilled citizens who had settled in the United States, urging them to return to their home countries. The partnership supports legislation that would make it easier for foreign-born STEM graduates and entrepreneurs to stay in the United States. ... The study notes that nine out of 10 patents at the University of Illinois system in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor. Of those, 64 percent had a foreign inventor who was not yet a professor but rather a student, researcher or postdoctoral fellow, a group more likely to face immigration problems."
Re:still... (Score:4, Funny)
no one wants to end immigration to america, our country was built on that concept, We simply want it done correctly. like our ancestors did
Re:still... (Score:4, Funny)
I hate hater haters.
I love hater haters because i hate haters.
Wow, no non-STEM patents? (Score:4, Funny)
As opposed to all of those patents in English lit and women's studies, I suppose...
Rob
Re:As a European (Score:4, Funny)
Well no one ever said we were not MILITANT religious fundamentalists.