INTERNATIONAL HIGH-SKILLED PROFESSIONALS MIGRATION: FACTORS, DYNAMICS, PROSPECTS

  • Oleg Tolstoguzov Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia
  • Maria Pitukhina Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia

Abstract

Nowadays science has become a direct productive force. Structural changes in the knowledge production world system as well as in knowledge economy geography are widely shown. Capital is being slowly being shifted towards periphery, while its surplus (investment part) is transferred to other countries (where capital conditions are more attractive), thus leading to science funding increase in the countries that are already innovative leaders. Capital is always followed by intellectuals, highly skilled professionals, and academic degree holders. At the same time, a new type of economy development is possible due to human capital quality increase, in particular, thanks to knowledge concentration and science financing increase. In order to ensure knowledge concentration it is necessary to stimulate innovation activity, to regulate knowledge flows and brain migration, to develop the institutions that stimulate innovations and reduce agents’ discrimination, to develop research schools, pursue a sustainable state innovative policy, modernize education processes. In the context of innovative economy and growing market competition both state’s role and state responsibilities have strengthened.

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Author Biographies

Oleg Tolstoguzov, Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia

Doctor of Economics and Researcher leader at the Institute of Economics at Karelian centre of Russian Academy of Sciences,  Professor at the Institute of Economics and Law at Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia, Russia. Most of Tolstogusov’s studies are dedicated to spatial and regional economy, state and municipal management, strategic planning of regions and cities, competitive law, entrepreneurship development and support. He is the research director of state projects dealing with  territories’ strategic and investment planning and development. He is the author of 7 books and more than 100 papers on economic analysis, regional policy and strategic planning.

Maria Pitukhina, Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia

Doctor of Political Science and a Researcher leader at Budget monitoring center at Petrozavodsk State University, Professor at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at Petrozavodsk State University, Researcher leader at the Institute of Economy at Karelian brunch of the Russian Science Academy, Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia. Pitukhina’s publications appeared in such renown journals as: Russian Economic Development, Socis, Advanced  Science  Letters, World  Economy  and  International  Relations,   International Journal  of  Ecological  Economics  and  Statistics, International journal of ecology and development. She is also the author of 3 books on migration policy.

In 2006 Maria Pitukhina received a silver medal from the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. Later she was a postdoctoral fellow at Bologna University (August 2010 – June 2011). She defended her Doctoral thesis in Political Science at St.Petersburg State University.

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2020-04-04
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Tolstoguzov, O., & Pitukhina, M. (2020). INTERNATIONAL HIGH-SKILLED PROFESSIONALS MIGRATION: FACTORS, DYNAMICS, PROSPECTS. The EUrASEANs: Journal on Global Socio-Economic Dynamics, (2(21), 44-61. https://doi.org/10.35678/2539-5645.2(21).2020.44-61