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Diasporas scientifiques

Comment les pays en développement peuvent-ils tirer parti de leurs chercheurs et de leurs ingénieurs expatriés ?

Scientific diasporas. How can developing countries benefit from their expatriate scientists and engineers?

For some décades now, developing countries have witnessed a northward "brain drain" of national talent. It is a trend that hampers the training of a country's managers and the constitution of a national scientific elite, and is worrying in terms of development. However, in recent years a potential counter-trend has emerged as expatriate communities, through their informal inputs, assist, advise and inform researchers and institutes in their home countries. How widespread are these activiti...


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  • Publisher : IRD Éditions
  • Series : Expertise collégiale
  • Place of publication : Marseille
  • Year of publication : 2003
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 08 octobre 2013
  • EAN (Print version) : 978-2-7099-1521-2
  • Electronic EAN : 978-2-7099-1770-4
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.irdeditions.2591
  • Number of pages : 197 + 464 (CD-Rom) p.

Seconde partie. Chapitres analytiques

W. A. Turner, C. Henry and M. Gueye
Chapitre 12. Diasporas, Development and ICTs
Liste et coordonnées des réseaux DST (diasporas scientifiques et techniques)

List and data of DST networks (diasporas in science and technology)

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