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The immigrant exodus : why America is losing the global race to capture entrepreneurial talent / Vivek Wadhwa with Alex Salkever.
LIBRA HD8081.A5 W33 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wadhwa, Vivek.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers--Government policy--United States.
- Foreign workers.
- Foreign workers--Government policy.
- Emigration and immigration.
- High technology industries--Employees--Supply and demand.
- High technology industries--Employees.
- United States.
- High technology industries--Employees--Supply and demand--United States.
- High technology industries.
- Entrepreneurship--United States.
- Entrepreneurship.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
- Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
- Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 101 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Wharton Digital Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Many of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of workers, and helping establish the United States as the most entrepreneurial, technologically advanced society on earth.Now, Vivek Wadhwa, an immigrant tech entrepreneur turned academic with appointments at Duke, Stanford, Emory, and Singu
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Why the future of America depends on skilled immigrants
- The rise and decline of the immigrant-powered startup machine
- The innovator's dilemma : leaving America for greener pastures
- H-1B visas and immigration limbo
- How the world is trying to steal Silicon Valley's thunder
- Seven fixes to slow the immigrant exodus
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781613630211
- 1613630212
- OCLC:
- 809615539
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