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The Migration Patterns Of Academics

The Horizons Tracker

The migration of academics has an obvious impact on innovation and the flow of knowledge across borders. As their gross domestic product (GDP) per capita rises, their emigration rates decrease. “Academics are a crucial group of innovators whose work has relevant economic effects.

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Scotland’s Future Is Bright; the UK’s Might Not Be

Harvard Business Review

There is clearly something to this; while declines in manufacturing employment have hit the Scottish economy hard, manufacturing has also been in decline as a share of GDP across the advanced economies over the past 25 years. There will be experimentation and innovation as people figure out the best way forward.