Transcript Brain Circulation - Competing for Human Capital
Brain Circulation Competing for Human Capital
B R A I N F L O W - B R A N D P R O J E C T
Dana Králová , PhD student Department of Human Geography, Charles University in Prague
High mobility
The highly educated exhibit high rates of mobility Fear of the skilled exodus from periphery Temporal movements (Williams and Baláž 2005) Not only brain drain and brain gain but rather brain exchange – BRAIN CIRCULATION
Brain circulation – brain exchange Uncertain plans - temporality of spatial decision - circular mobility Dynamic and flexible brain circulation Difficult to measure and control Sequential migration behaviour Subsequent is related to previous Growing networks and opportunities
Nature of mobility differs
Which type of highly skilled is the periphery trying to attract?
Mobility level depends on many factors: Life cycle phase Gender (Faggian et al. 2007) Field of study The level of education, grades (Venhorst et al. 2010)
Best graduates may stay in the periphery
Several employers in the peripheral areas are able to
retain the best graduates
- true for humanities, not true for economics Role of universities / educational institutions - building and retaining the human capital - potential employer in periphery - judge the productivity of a candidate Preventing education-job mismatch (Hensen et al. 2008)
Alumni networks
Network analyse Spatial extend – national / transnational Degree of concentration – institutional / regional Directional bias of flows – net migration rate balance Core role of Alumni networks – competing for talent Keeping in touch with the lost ones Knowledge exchange Attraction - promotion Spreading information
Thank you for attention
Alumni networks can spread
the attractiveness of a region
Saskia Dankwart follows