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Panel III: Human Resources, Competition for Manpower, and the Internationalization of Labor
Panel III: Human Resources, Competition for Manpower, and the Internationalization of Labor
Pages 79-87
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Dr. Zimmermann said that his current research emphasis on migration and labor markets was "well suited to this important gathering," and that in the future, human resources "will be even more than in the past the central part of innovation creation, along with the use of new products and services." A point he emphasized was that the success of new ideas has to do not only with the "intelligent and market oriented creation of products and services," but also with the willingness of an educated population to use what is invented.
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We have to understand that the future depends on a common effort to face the challenges, especially from the rise of Asia." Migration and Innovation Dr. Zimmermann said that the IZA, based in Bonn, has the largest corps of scientists in economics in the world -- about 1,100 -- who cooperate with researchers in United States and China.
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• A likely scenario is that in 20 to 30 years, the United States will still be the dominant global force for innovation, along with China, while the rest of the world lags. He noted that the brightest people in the world still want to study in the United States, and to earn a doctoral degree there.
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80 20,000,000 Number of Students (Right Axis) 70 Number of Students 60 15,000,000 50 40 10,000,000 30 20 5,000,000 10 0 0 United States China Germany Sources: OECD; Brandenburg and Zhu (2007)
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22 Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, and Klaus Zimmermann, "Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective," Kyklos, 63(4)
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Zimmerman, Presentation at the May 25-26, 2011, National Academies Symposium on "Meeting Global Challenges: German-U.S. Innovation Policy." • More International students studying in China (almost 200,000 in 2007)
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"Once you deliver software services through the Internet as a utility, you move your spending model from capex to opex, and that will change everything." The "cost savings, productivity, and innovation" of the cloud were critical for Europe, he continued, because of three challenges shared with the United States. The first is debt; the second is demography, with both regions having to confront an aging population; and the third is the need to raise GNP growth.
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Today I buy a Samsung instead of a Sony. That's what education can do." Today, he said, education in the EU and the United States were lagging.
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"The mix of cultures and the drive for innovation are missing here -- while more than 50 percent of students in the United States are non-Europeans." Another data point he offered was that 80 percent of all software startups in Silicon Valley during the last 10 years were led by first- or second-generation Chinese or Indians.
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