Fola Odufawa's post on 10/28/04 reminded me of a paper titled "The Bangalore Boom: From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation?" by AnnaLee Saxenian of the University of California at Berkeley. The URL for this is: <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~anno/papers/bangalore_boom.html>
The Indian experience has been that many of our country's top technology professionals migrated abroad because the opportunity to exploit their talents was not available within India. For example, Vinod Dham who led the team that designed the Pentium chip at Intel once said that he would never have got an opportunity to work on such a significant technology back home in India. This statement was made around six years ago. Over the last few years what we have seen is that many of the professionals who went abroad are coming back, attracted by the growing Indian market and the professional opportunities that are opening up in the country. Venky ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by USAID's dot-ORG Cooperative Agreement with AED, in partnership with World Resources Institute's Digital Dividend Project, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org and http://www.digitaldividend.org provide more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/archive.html>
