Prof. de Rassenfosse receives funding from the SNIS
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Prof. de Rassenfosse has received CHF 235,000 funding from the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) as the principal investigator for a two-year research project entitled "Skilled migrants’ contribution to innovation." The SNIS promotes academic research in the interdisciplinary area of International Studies with an interest in phenomena that transcend traditional nation-state boundaries.
The overall objective of the project is to advance knowledge-based evidence on skilled migrants and their contribution to the host country’s innovative capacity. The project will contribute to advancing knowledge in two ways. First, it will provide a global view, in contrast to existing studies which mainly focus on the United States. Second, unlike most of the literature on the subject, it focuses on a specific category of skilled workers that is directly relevant for understanding innovation, namely inventors. This project will draw on a recently developed bilateral worldwide dataset on inventors in both developed and developing economies. The project findings will have wider application in contributing to the policy dialogue on migration and innovation.
The project involves policy partners from the World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva) and the World Bank (Washington) as well as academic partners from Switzerland (Université de Neuchâtel) and abroad (University of Melbourne, Australia).
The program is extremely competitive, with a low success rate (less than 10 per cent). The grant is further testimony to the excellence and policy-relevance of the research conducted in Prof. de Rassenfosse’s group.
Link to the SNIS: http://www.snis.ch/