Tag Archive for 'brain drain'

Central Europe can bring talent back home

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Balazs Barta
  on  November 19, 2008
  in  Business innovation, Facts, figures & trends and Hungary
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I wrote some remarks about the threat of brain-drain from Central Europe to USA.  Recently, I have met some intelligent cosmopolitan guys, who confirmed my opinion that brain drain actually can be useful. The question is how to make most out of it? A solution may appear …

Three intelligent people. One of them is an Assistant Professor and Research Associate in quantum optics at New York’s Hunter College. The second lectures in financial engineering on Wall Street. The third is an Assistant Research Professor in bioengineering in Florida. All three are of these people Hungarians who have made successful careers in the United States. And each has to returned to Hungary and is now working in Szombathely.

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Brain Drain: The Austrians have suffered and learned

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Guenther Krumpak
  on  August 29, 2008
  in  Austria
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Encouraged by recent postings and an interesting article from Romania from 2006 http://mises.org/story/2371 I want to join the brain drain debate.

Austria has been suffering from brain drain during the entire 2nd half of the 20th century but has recently introduced measures to get good people back: An organisation called BrainPower www.brainpower-austria.at, a department of Austria’s research funding and promotion agency FFG www.ffg.at is offering support for researchers who are interested in getting back to Austria (jobs, accommodation, travel costs, information etc.). They work closely together with an organisation called ASCINA, Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America, an initiative of the Office of Science and Technology (OST) at the Austrian Embassy in Washington D.C. www.ascina.at, this, because a major part of the brains that emigrated have drained to North America.

Networking plus practical support obviously help, as their statistics show, but the best proof for real breakthroughs is “give them appropriate playgrounds, and they come back themselves”.

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Are we trapped in a vicious loop?

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Guenther Krumpak
  on  August 7, 2008
  in  Austria and Uncategorized
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This post is somehow a free analysis of my observations, and you, dear readers and bloggers, can verify together with me if my observations and conclusions apply.

Recently I commented IBM CEE’s move from Vienna to Prague. I said that this move has no reasonable background, as the Czech Republic is no low-cost low-wage country anymore and if IBM wants growth, why not go to Russia right away.

At the same time it was announced that Siemens rail vehicles is closing down in Prague. No tit-for-tat feelings. Everybody who has his/her eyes open can see that classical production moves east.

Yesterday I attended an event where one of Austria’s top ICT researchers, Bruno Buchberger (one of the top three worldwide in Symbolic Computation) presented his new master studies program mainly targeted to foreigners as in Austria they do not have enough top qualified computer science students.

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Are the brains coming back?

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Steven Carlson
  on  November 28, 2004
  in  Current events
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We’re all familiar with the concept of ‘brain drain’. In the face of Communism and other hardships, some of Central Europe’s best minds have chosen to emigrate to countries that provide them better conditions for success.

According to this article, however, some of those people are now returning. Continue reading ‘Are the brains coming back?’