America's innovative edge at risk?

Researchers are the kind of highly skilled people that knowledge economies need to create new knowledge and ideas. Asian countries are producing highly skilled people, and investing the resources to strengthen their work, actually producing new knowledge and technology. The US maintains its position as the leading innovative nation in the world producing much more work in the biomedical sciences. The dynamic newcomers are less mature, so they lack a broadbased strength. If all the expansion in US corporate research and development takes place abroad, the ability to generate new corporate R& D jobs for the graduates will depend on the ability to attract the R& D of foreign countries.