However, by raising the bar at entry without improving pay and conditions, the government has woefully failed to understand how to encourage highly-skilled graduates into the profession.
However, a system that producers and encourages highly-skilled, ambitious researchers eager to reveal new knowledge, find new solutions and develop new technologies, must be motivated and open-minded to see the innovative potential in research findings in order to succeed, she cautioned.
Policymakers should follow two parallel tracks continue to encourage well educated, highly skilled foreign workers to stay in the U.S. permanently by increasing the numbers of permanent-residence visas for skilled immigrants, and find ways to encourage students in the U.S. to pursue math, science and technology education that leads to careers in these in-demand areas.
"We want to encourage talented and highly skilled people to pursue career options in the U.S". Trump's tweet probably referred to changes that the Department of Homeland Security proposed late last year — though the final changes have not been published yet.
"We can't have all of our bright young kids building robots," he says, smiling, "Aventis and others need to encourage biotech students of the future and promote a highly skilled workforce in Canada".
If we are to encourage greater flow of highly skilled people from academia to the broader community, then whose responsibility is it to catalyse such a flow?
Indeed, only minuscule differences are visible in the positions of three potential candidates who've addressed immigration (none dare speak of "amnesty"): Jeb Bush, who co-wrote a book called "Immigration Wars" with the Goldwater Institute's Clint Bolick, argues for a narrow path to "legalization" (not citizenship) while encouraging the influx of highly skilled workers.
Birmingham's distinctive economic profile, with thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation and provided a diverse and resilient economic base for industrial prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 20th century.
Oh, yes, and the Black Course, one of the world's foremost golf challenges -- the first tee is dominated by a sign encouraging all but the game's highly skilled golfers to try somewhere else -- was lengthened some 230 yards.
And highly skilled Chinese can thrive in environments that encourage originality and entrepreneurship.
