Media

Recent studies released by the Global Engineering and Entrepreneurship @ Duke research group have received substantial media attention. Included below are several of the articles that discuss our research in print. Ranging from Science Magazine to the Washington Post, these reports explore connections between our research projects and the larger outsourcing and skilled immigrant debates.

How the Disciple became the Guru

• Newsweek – Engineering Success (08/12/08)
• EE Times – India companies turn to internal training for IT expertise development (07/24/08)
• India Knowledge@Wharton – Globalization, U.S. Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (07/24/08)
• CNBC (Internet Explorer Video) – Job Training: U.S. vs. India (07/23/08)
• Business Week – What the U.S. Can Learn from Indian R&D (07/23/08)
• Wall Street Journal – India's Workforce Revolution (07/23/08)

 

The Globalization of Innovation: Pharmaceuticals

• Pharma Asia News – A Tale of Two Giants (08/04/08)
• Wall Street Journal Asia – Welcome Global Pharma (06/17/08)
• Business Week Eye on Asia Blog – For Indian Pharma, a Demoralizing Ranbaxy Deal (06/12/08)
• Business Week – Big Pharma's R&D Booster Shot (06/11/08)
• Business Week – Loosing Our Lead in Innovative R&D (06/11/08)

 

Education and Tech Entrepreneurship

• Wall Street Journal – Tech Entrepreneurs Mostly Aren't Youngsters After All (05/01/08)
• EE Times – Study: US Entrepreneurs are Educated, Experienced (05/01/08)
• Information Week – Tech Entrepreneurs Older, More Educated than Stereotype (05/01/08)
• Pacific Business News – What an Entrepreneur Looks Like (05/01/08)
• Business Week – How To Foster Tech Entrepreneurship (04/30/08)

 

Getting the Numbers Right: International Engineering Education in the United States, China and India

• Newsweek – Or Maybe Major in Computer Lit (08/09/08)
• The City Club of Cleveland – Myths and Realities in the Globalization Debate (01/28/08)
• Science Magazine – Engineers Aim for a Quality Boost (01/11/08)
• Science Magazine – Feeling the Elephant (01/04/08)

 

US-Based Global Intellectual Property: An Analysis

• EE Times – State Patent Rankings: Delaware First, but California Still Leads (11/02/07)
• The Birmingham News – Alabama No. 45 in Patent Survey (11/02/07)
• Tulsa World – State Ranks Low in Patent Requests (11/02/07)
• St. Louis Business Journal – Mo. Ranks No. 32 for International Patent Applications (11/01/07)
• Star Tribune – We're #3 -- in Global Patent Filings (11/01/07)
• Providence Business News – Mass., Conn. get High Scores for IP Creation (11/01/07)
• Pacific Business News – Hawaii ranks low on innovation (11/01/07)
• EarthTimes – Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, California and Connecticut... (11/01/07)

 

Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part III

• American Magazine – America's Other Immigration Crisis (08/08)
• NewsWeek International – Unleash the Little Guys (12/07)
• San Diego Union Tribune – Finding Greener Pastures at Home, Asian Scientists Leaving (12/16/07)
• CIO – The Next Wave of Globalization: Offshoring R&D to India and China (10/31/07)
• Business Week – The Science Education Myth (10/26/07)
• Business Week – The Visa Shortage: Big Problem, Easy Fix (10/17/07)
• The American Spectator – Needed: Productive Legal Immigrants (10/15/07)
• The New York Sun – Keep Them Here (10/05/07)
• IndUS Business Journal – Indians Dominate Patent Ranks in 2006, Study Says (10/05/07)
• CNN Money– Wanted: Foreign Tech Workers (09/26/07)
• Science Magazine – Driving the Economy (09/19/07)
• BBC News – Skilled Immigrants Suffer US Limbo (09/19/07)
• EE Times – Green-Card Red Tape Sends Valuable Engineers Packing (08/28/07)
• ABC News – 1 Million Skilled Workers Stuck in 'Immigration Limbo' (08/27/07)
• New York Times – A Solution Seen to 'Brain Drain' (08/27/07)
• Hindustan Times – US Facing Reverse Brain Drain Threat (08/23/07)
• Washington Post – Immigrants Compete for Visas (08/23/07)
• Work Permit – U.S. - Study Points to Brain Drain of Skilled Immigrant... (08/22/07)
• New York Times – A Solution for the High-Tech Immigrant Challenge (08/22/07)
• Times of India – Reverse Brain Drain May Affect the US: Study (08/22/07)
• New York Times – Study Raises Concern Over 'Brain Drain' (08/22/07)
• Business Week – The Reverse Brain Drain (08/22/07)

 

Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part II

• Forbes – U.S. Visa System Lags Behind Demand (08/10/07)
• CNN Money – Do Big Alma Maters Mater? (08/02/07)
• Forbes – The Other Side of Immigration (07/09/07)
• Forbes – The Implications of Immigrant Entrepreneurship (07/03/07)
• Business Week – One Easy Fix for Immigration (06/21/07)
• eWeek – Immigrants Fuel Tech Boom (06/19/07)
• American City Business Journals – Immigrant Tech Entrepreneurs... (06/18/07)
• Global Services – Immigrant Entrepreneurs: What's thier Education Quotient? (06/14/07)
• Kansas City Star– Foreigners Loom Large in Startups (06/12/07)
• Tech Journal South – Highly Educated, Frustrated, Immigrant Entrepreneurs Go Home (06/12/07)
• CNN Money– Is the U.S. Winning Back its Competitive Edge? (06/11/07)
• Business Week – Immigrants: Key U.S. Business Founders (06/11/07)
• USA Today: Small Business Connection – Study: Immigrant Founders Super-Educated (06/11/07)
• The Economic Times – Glittering Univs are Not Churning Gold (06/11/07)
• Houston Chronicle – Immigrants Often Key to Startups (06/11/07)
• Electronic Design Strategy News – Who's Got the Right Stuff? Immigrant Entrepreneurs (06/11/07)
• Mangalorean.com – Indians, Other Immigrants Fuel Technology Firms (06/11/07)
• Denver Business Journal – Denver Lacking as a Hub for Immigrant Entrepreneurs (06/11/07)

 

Where the Engineers Are

• Mercury News – Valley's Edge: Success Hard to Copy (11/26/07)
• FOX News – Technology Firm Executives Say Immigration Barriers Hurt America (05/30/07)
• New American Programs - In Search of the American Dream: Small Business (05/16/07)
• Red Herring – Outsourcing the Future? (05/11/07)
• Investor's Business Daily – Study: China Leaps Forward (05/01/07)
• National Public Radio- Engineering Shortage? Duke Says No (04/30/07)
• CRM Buyer – Outsourcing, Part 2: Uncovering the Hidden Costs (04/27/07)
• Ecommerce Times – Outsourcing, Part 1: Is Resistance Futile? (04/26/07)
• The New Yorker – India's Skill Famine (04/16/07)
• Business Week – A Looming Economic Threat (03/19/07)
• The Wall Street Journal Online – Counting Engineers (03/16/07)

 

America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part I

• Forbes – Silicon Valley's Immigration Problem (03/05/07)
• Washington Post – Immigrants a Driving Force Behind Start-Ups, Study Says (01/04/07)
• AP – Immigrants Behind 25% of Startups (01/04/07)
• Business Week – Open Doors Wider for Skilled Immigrants (01/03/07)

 

Industry Trends in Engineering Offshoring

• Business Week – Outsourcing: Job Killer or Innovation Boost? (11/08/06)
• Business Week – The Real Problem with Outsourcing (11/07/06)
• Hindustan Times – US Engineering Jobs Continue to be Outsourced to India (10/30/06)

 

Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate

• The Wall Street Journal – Bush's Competitiveness Agenda is Tested (05/31/06)
• National Public Radio - Figures on Chinese Engineers Fail to Add Up (05/12/06)
• Insider Higher Ed – Quality vs. Quantity in Engineering (03/03/06)
• Washington Post – Heard the one About the 600,000 Chinese Engineers? (05/21/06)
• Washington Post – A Phony Science Gap? (02/22/06)
• US News and World Report – Did Bush do the Math? (02/13/06)
• Herald Sun – We Need to Keep Leading Students into Science, Math (02/10/06)
• Science Magazine – Engineered Numbers (01/06/06)
• News and Observer – Tech Outlook Rosy (12/13/06)
• Financial Times – US 'Ahead in Producing Technologists' (12/13/06)
• Investors – Fears of China and India Swamping U.S. Could be Overblown (12/12/06)