You'll probably need the most common visa – the skilled workers and professionals visa – but in order to get one you'll have to prove you will be an advantage to the economy (Quebec has its own regional visa of this type).
Scientific innovation also provides an important comparative advantage to the economies that do science best.
There are two advantages to the hydrogen economy: if early hydrogen-fuelled vehicles are not very efficient it does not matter because pollution-wise they have zero emissions, and more importantly, the existing cost of expensive exhaust after-treatment is removed.
But if after five years in government the Conservative Party's policy advantage is confined to the economy and the public finances – crucial areas, but not, as far as voters are concerned, everything – that is hardly the fault of an Australian consultant.
He co-opted the Republicans' longstanding political advantage on issues from crime to the economy to welfare, and even, for a time, on morality and values.
That world is somewhat more ethically aware than the computer-science world, for instance, which is spying on people, taking advantage of people, doing damage to the economy.
— Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke "We will never seek to weaken our currency as a tool to gain competitive advantage or to grow the economy.
"We will never seek to weaken our currency as a tool to gain competitive advantage or to grow the economy," he said.
In an interview in Seoul, where Geithner is attending the G20 meeting, the Treasury secretary told CNBC's Steve Liesman that the U.S. "will never seek to weaken our currency as a tool to gain competitive advantage or to grow the economy".
But the smaller scale of the project may turn out to be an advantage as the economy struggles to recover.
