V. N. Minat
Ryazan State Agrotechnological University by P.A.Kostychev, Ryazan, Russian Federation
Abstract:
The high territorial mobility of the modern population of the United States is expressed through migration of the highly qualified researchers. This process reflects the spatial structure and territorial features of the national innovation system development in the United States. The purpose of the article is to identify the main trends of migration of highly qualified researchers to the United States reflecting the spatial structure of the scientific research organization at the state groups level. The methodological basis of the study is based on the technology of statistical and economic method; its application was aimed to use a typological approach expressed in individual States grouping according to their role in the migration of American higher qualification scientific personnel within the country. The results of the study reflect the current features of highly qualified researchers migration in the United States; it was expressed in researchers distribution in the leading States within the country at various stages of their training and activities; it was also expressed in the states grouping depending on their role in migration of highly qualified researchers. The exchange of scientists between the states depends on the total number of scientists (in our case, doctors of science), that is, directly proportional to their number. At the same time, migration is particularly intense between closely located states and is inversely proportional to the distance between them. These trends are particularly evident in the cross-flows of specialists between the states; these states are the most significant in scientific researches and therefore they have a lot of researchers.
Keywords:
highly qualified researchers, the USA innovation system, internal migration of researchers, spatial structure of research, states, research and development (R & D).
Paper submitted:
May 17, 2020
For citation:
Minat V. N. (2020). Migration of highly qualified researchers to the United States. The Science of Person: Humanitarian Researches, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 182–188. DOI: 10.17238/issn1998-5320.2020.14.3.22.
