Events

 

 Accessing Global Knowledge Workshop. New Delhi, India, March 17, 2008. 

 

How to Leverage Talent Abroad to Benefit Home Countries? Experience and Results Agenda of Diaspora and Venture Capital Networks. A one-day workshop on Diaspora and Venture Capital Networks. Washington, D.C, June 13, 2007.

 

Leveraging Talent Abroad for Home Country Development: Lessons from Asia and Europe for Pilot Diaspora Networks in Latin America. A brown bag lunch seminar for the recent book “Diaspora Networks and the International Migration of Skills - How Countries Can Draw on Their Talent Abroad", and review experiences of recent pilot initiatives to leverage technical talent from Latin American economies to promote innovation at home. February 8, 2007.

 

Promoting Innovation Networks for High-Productivity Employment. Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 14-15, 2006. The seminar brought together participants from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Israel, USA and UK to share best practice in promoting innovation networks and clusters, including experience on venture capital industry. Particular attention was devoted to Diaspora networks as a tool to open up and reform national innovation systems. (Spanish)

 

Global Workshop on Migration of Talent and Diasporas of the Highly Skilled. The workshop focused on the design of public policies to leverage expatriate skills abroad for the benefit of the countries of origin. It put a particular emphasis on facilitation of “brain circulation” rather than trying to reverse “brain drain”. Several very interesting papers and presentations from the event is available online.

 

From Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Global Dialog: 'How to' of Mobilization of Diasporas of Highly Skilled. The objective of this Global Dialogue was to understand factors behind the success of  several initiatives that have worked well, in view of informing  the design of new initiatives.  The focus of the event was on ‘how to’ details of programs and initiatives of mobilization of Diaspora of highly skilled in the context of low and middle-income countries.