I see the Times playing up the nationalistic components but the truth is that people go to companies, learn stuff, and start new companies doing the same thing only better all the time. It is perhaps even more rampant in California with its employee protection laws but it isn't unusual anywhere in the US.
The question I have is that if several students of a prominent professor at Harvard go to work at Intel and AMD as electrical engineers, and then later get together to form their own company, still in the US, to make a really energy efficient x86 equivalent processor, is that economic espionage or innovation? Generally we've held it to be the latter.
And then there is the number of students getting advanced degrees in the US from really bright professors, but are unable to get a Visa to actually work in the US?
The question I have is that if several students of a prominent professor at Harvard go to work at Intel and AMD as electrical engineers, and then later get together to form their own company, still in the US, to make a really energy efficient x86 equivalent processor, is that economic espionage or innovation? Generally we've held it to be the latter.
And then there is the number of students getting advanced degrees in the US from really bright professors, but are unable to get a Visa to actually work in the US?
It is hard for me to be outraged here.