For years, NSF-sponsored summer institutes have sent American graduate students abroad, in cooperation with overseas science-funding institutes.
And when we asked what makes it appealing to keep their businesses in the United States or move them overseas, life science companies were two to three times more likely than hardware and software/internet companies to cite the regulatory environment as a reason to move abroad.
Undergraduate courses were analysed in four groups: biological sciences, human biosciences, health-related (dentistry, health sciences, overseas medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy and veterinary science) and non-health-related courses (architecture, arts/social sciences, commerce/economics, earth sciences, engineering, law, mathematical sciences, physical sciences and psychology).
And though legal experts say it could be challenged in court, the Wisconsin patent could help push stem cell science overseas.
She said her son had recently spent a lot of time overseas, studying political science in Paris and working in Kenya, and that sometimes he was hard to contact.
One program is designed to attract Chinese expatriates who hold overseas patents in specialized science fields, the report found.
Still, improving America's image overseas is not rocket science: witness the transformation among Indonesians after the magnificent relief effort that Washington led following the great tsunami.
We will assume that he would want to stick to the deficit reduction plan; let us also assume that existing ringfenced spending – health, overseas aid, schools, the science budget and now the commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence – stays in place.
From talking with those in the industry, the laxity of the Chinese system, and others, have made many US investors weary of investing in life science companies overseas.
YI-LING LIU profiles the "Green Turtles," Chinese-born students who move overseas to study environmental sciences, and their dilemma of whether or not to return home.
It's no wonder that we have to import good science graduates from overseas," he said.
