BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Brain Drain
- the overseas migration of specialists, usually highly qualified scientists, engineers, or technical experts, in pursuit of higher salaries, better research funding, and a perceived higher quality of working life
Wiktionary Definition for: Brain Drain
- #The migration of educated or talented people from less economically advanced areas to more economically advanced areas, especially to large cities or richer countries.
Additional Resources
- Turner 'brain drain' - Hogan makes four. (Turner Entertainment Co. president Gerry Hogan joins Whittle Communications L.P.)
- Turner `Brain Drain' -- Hogan Makes Four The resignation of Turner Entertainment Networks president Gerry Hogan has left the industry wondering how Turner Broadcasting System Inc. chairman Ted Turner will cope with the "brain drain." Turner `Brain Drain' --...
- Research articles 1990-09-24
- Slowing Iowa's brain drain.
- Iowa experienced a net loss of more than 10,000 college graduates to other states in the late 1990s, according to a new study conducted by Iowa State University. The data quantifies the so-called brain-drain problem that state officials and the busi Iowa experienced a net...
- Research articles 2003-11-17
- Reverse Brain Drain: Is It a Threat?
- The Find: An extended interview with two experts reveals the increasing number of highly skills immigrants who are returning to their home countries and discusses whether the phenomenon represents a threat to U.S. business. The Source: A WorldFocus internet radio interview of Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Trans-Atlantic Brain Drain Worries Europe's Policy Makers
- News and Views of the Current Research-Technology Management SceneEurope is stepping up efforts to plug the drain of scientific talent to the United States. The European Union EU and several other European organizations have begun to implement a range of ambitious plans aimed at keeping top minds at home while...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Trans-Atlantic brain drain worries Europe's policy makers - Perspectives: news and views of the current research-technology management scene
- Europe is stepping up efforts to plug the drain of scientific talent to the United States. The European Union EU and several other European organizations have begun to implement a range of ambitious plans aimed at keeping top minds at home while luring others back to their native countries. ...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Scientists and Engineers; Suffering From Brain Drain and Brain Strain.(Brief Article)
- A science and engineering (S&E) brain drain is in full swing in businesses across the country. Turnover is high, the availability of young talent is declining and experienced talent is retiring early, says The Garrity Group Inc., a marketing/media organization located in St. Paul, Minn., which...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- Meet Needs Of Older Workers To Avoid Brain Drain
- Companies may be subsidizing their own corporate brain drain if they offer generous early retirement plans instead of finding ways to retain their graying senior staffers with flexible work options and benefits. The article says that with low unemployment rate, there has been a shift -- now companies try to...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Yahoo's Brain Drain Continues
- At Yahoo, it’s another day, another re-org. Tim Cadogan, Yahoo’s S.V.P. of Global Advertising Marketplaces, has resigned, the latest hemorrhage in the ongoing brain drain from the progenitor of search advertising. The smart, affable Brit had successfully spearheaded the company’s “Panama†effort, which wholly...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Amercia's Brain Drain: How U.S. Firms Stifle Innovation
- The problem with most business books is that the authors can't write. The problem with "America's Corporate Brain Drain: Why We leave, Where We Go, How We Can Reverse the Flow," is that while the author can write, she just doesn't know how to organize. The premise...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- 'Brain drain' hurting poor nations
- Poor countries across Africa, Central America and the Caribbean are losing sometimes staggering portions of their college-educated workers to wealthy democracies, according to a World Bank study released Tuesday. The study's findings document a troubling pattern of "brain drain" -- the flight of skilled, middle-class workers who could...
- Research articles 2005-10-25
- International Migration, Remittances, and Brain Drain
- International migration, remittances, and brain drain. Ed. by Caglar Ozden, Maurice Schiff. The World Bank 2005 274 pages $30.00 Paperback Trade and development series JV6035 The eight papers presented here by Ozden and Schiff (both of the International Trade Unit, Development...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Brain drain hits Homeland Security
- WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department is losing top managers and rank-and-file employees in a brain drain that could affect morale and the nation's safety, according to members of Congress and labor experts. Homeland Security is "hemorrhaging on the front lines and higher up," says New York University professor...
- Research articles 2006-03-29
- Qatar seeks to reverse Arab brain drain
- DOHA AFP — Qatar is to try to reverse the Arab brain drain that has seen thousands of experts leave the region by bringing together expatriate Arab scientists at annual forums starting in April. The meetings will be held at Education City, an academic complex on the edge of...
- Research articles 2006-03-19
- Teachers assist hurricane survivors; Louisiana schools avoid brain drain.
- Many public schools in Louisiana were closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, worrying Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and state school officials that unemployed teachers would permanently move out of the area. To help avoid a brain drain, FEMA teamed up with dozens of teachers...
- Research articles 2005-11-22
- USDA suffering food safety brain drain at crucial juncture, partnership finds.(United States Department of Agriculture )(Brief Article)
- A brain drain is threatening the federal government's food safety workforce just as the public outcry for safer practices grows stronger, according to the Partnership for Public Service. Mad cow disease and agroterrorism are but two of the threats against which federal food safety experts must...
- Research articles 2004-01-27
- Science initiative reverses brain drain.
- Byline: Lisa Macnamara Oct 24, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge & Innovation has helped to reverse Australia's "brain drain". A parasitologist and a biophysicist have been awarded fellowships under the scheme, which has...
- Research articles 2006-10-24
- Tougher US immigration leading to 'reverse brain-drain': study
- WASHINGTON AFP — The huge backlog in US immigration visas is leading to a "reverse brain-drain" that will force skilled workers to return to their home country, a report released Wednesday concludes. The study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation found that more than one million potential immigrants, including...
- Research articles 2007-08-22
- International migration reduces poverty in developing countries, but results in massive brain drain for some, says World Bank study.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-25 October 2005-WORLD BANK: International migration reduces poverty in developing countries, but results in massive brain drain for some, says World Bank studyC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24102005 WASHINGTON - Migrants' remittances reduce poverty in developing countries, but massive emigration of...
- Research articles 2005-10-25
- Initiatives Aim to Halt 'Brain Drain' from Indiana.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Dec. 14--Too many smart graduates, especially techies, are fleeing the state after earning their diplomas. Universities and business groups are creating two initiatives to stop the "brain drain" -- or at least slow it. Lilly Endowment is kicking in $3.5 million to make them...
- Research articles 2000-12-14
- Brain drain plugs: how Indiana is trying to keep its best and brightest from leaving.(Education)
- THE LATEST GOVERNMENT figures confirm what state opinion leaders have been saying for the past few years: Indiana is suffering from a severe "brain drain," losing many of its best and brightest college students to other places. But the news is not all bad. ...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
