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America's Innovation Engine Is Slowing

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Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

  • The United Kingdom plans to provide emergency loans to its universities to cover 80 percent of their losses from the drop-off in international students, but the United States has made no such move. Indeed, by threatening student visas, immigration officials were poised to deepen schools'financial woes
  • Kerr has argued that the US has benefited enormously from the international flow of talent. From 2000 to 2010, more immigrant inventors migrated to the United States than to all other countries combined Juliette Kayyem: Trump turns the US into an outcast But the number of international students is expected to plunge as the pandemic makes overseas travel difficult - and as rising case counts in the United States scare off visitors from other countries
  • Earlier this month , Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that international students attending universities that switch to online-only courses in the fall would be required to leave the United States
  • These students go on to work for artificial-intelligence companies, logistics firms, biotech labs - or start their own. When given the opportunity, they prefer to stay in the United States. More than 80 percent of international doctoral students in artificial intelligence, for example, remain in the country after graduation, according to a December report from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology

    • Momentum supporting factors

  • (united_states,international)

    • Challenge supporting factors

  • (united_states,international)
  • (international,revenue)
  • (pandemic,policy)

    • Work-in-progress supporting factors

  • (united_states,international)
  • (international,university)
  • (united_states,complex)
  • (united_states,cities)
  • (united_states,university)
  • (united_states,uncertainty)
  • (university,uncertainty)
  • (united_states,therapies)
  • (university,therapies)
  • (united_states,technologies)

    • Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report6.82 2.27 90.91

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
    (1) (united_states,international)100.00
    (2) (international,university)46.20
    (3) (united_states,complex)35.44
    (4) (united_states,cities)34.81
    (5) (united_states,university)34.18
    (6) (united_states,uncertainty)33.54
    (7) (university,uncertainty)32.91
    (8) (united_states,therapies)32.28
    (9) (university,therapies)31.65
    (10) (united_states,technologies)31.01
    (11) (pandemic,united_states)31.01
    (12) (university,technologies)30.38
    (13) (international,security)29.75
    (14) (united_states,security)29.11
    (15) (united_states,population)28.48
    (16) (united_states,neurobiology)27.85
    (17) (pandemic,university)27.22
    (18) (united_states,models)27.22
    (19) (united_states,manufacturing)26.58
    (20) (international,revenue)22.15
    (21) (international,budget)21.52
    (22) (international,workers)20.89
    (23) (university,workers)20.25
    (24) (international,work-visa)19.62
    (25) (international,trump)18.99
    (26) (international,start-ups)18.35
    (27) (international,scientists)17.72
    (28) (international,public-university)17.09
    (29) (international,private)16.46
    (30) (pandemic,policy)15.82
    (31) (pandemic,zip)14.56
    (32) (university,america)13.29
    (33) (pandemic,trump)12.66
    (34) (pandemic,therapies)12.03
    (35) (university,countries)12.03
    (36) (pandemic,technologies)11.39
    (37) (pandemic,student)10.76
    (38) (pandemic,spaces)10.13
    (39) (pandemic,silicon_valley)9.49
    (40) (pandemic,pushing)8.86
    (41) (pandemic,models)6.96
    (42) (university,immigration)5.70
    (43) (university,american)3.16
    (44) (university,travel)0.63

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    Supporting narratives:

    Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

    • momentum (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • Kerr has argued that the US has benefited enormously from the international flow of talent. From 2000 to 2010, more immigrant inventors migrated to the United States than to all other countries combined Juliette Kayyem: Trump turns the US into an outcast But the number of international students is expected to plunge as the pandemic makes overseas travel difficult - and as rising case counts in the United States scare off visitors from other countries
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,international)

    • challenge (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • The United Kingdom plans to provide emergency loans to its universities to cover 80 percent of their losses from the drop-off in international students, but the United States has made no such move. Indeed, by threatening student visas, immigration officials were poised to deepen schools'financial woes
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,international)

    • challenge (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • If they stop coming, that will mean fewer start-ups, fewer tech workers, fewer scientists, and ultimately fewer jobs A s the influx of talented people from overseas slows, university bottom lines will suffer. In the past decade, international students, who typically pay full tuition, have become a major revenue source. In 2015, a financial-services firm estimated that international students, who made up 12 percent of students enrolled at public universities, were providing about 28 percent of total tuition revenue Public-university budgets were devastated after the Great Recession depleted state coffers
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (international,revenue)

    • challenge (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • I n the pas t half century, America's innovation engine - built on an influx of global brainpower, a vibrant university system, cities that encourage the spontaneous interaction of people and ideas - has worked so well that policy makers have taken it for granted. Yet the pandemic is now disassembling that engine in remarkably precise ways
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (pandemic,policy)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • "The ten most innovative cities in the United States," a recent research paper points out, "account for 23 percent of the national population, but for 48 percent of its patents and 33 percent of its gross domestic product." The paper goes on to argue that complex industries such as semiconductors, biotechnology, and neurobiology are even more likely to benefit from clustering in big cities when compared with less complex activities such as paper or apparel manufacturing
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,neurobiology)
        • (united_states,population)
        • (united_states,complex)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • Engineers, academics, investors, designers, computer scientists, and supply-chain managers mingle across firms, share ideas, have serendipitous run-ins, and push one another in a way that makes the entire group more productive and creative than individuals would be in isolation. "The ten most innovative cities in the United States," a recent research paper points out, "account for 23 percent of the national population, but for 48 percent of its patents and 33 percent of its gross domestic product." The paper goes on to argue that complex industries such as semiconductors, biotechnology, and neurobiology are even more likely to benefit from clustering in big cities when compared with less complex activities such as paper or apparel manufacturing
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,cities)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • In the end, immigration officials backed down amid legal challenges, but some damage was already done: The administration had added to the uncertainty swirling about America's crucial higher-education sector, while also signaling to young people overseas that, should they ever want to attend an American university, they might not be welcome.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,university)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • In the end, immigration officials backed down amid legal challenges, but some damage was already done: The administration had added to the uncertainty swirling about America's crucial higher-education sector, while also signaling to young people overseas that, should they ever want to attend an American university, they might not be welcome
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,uncertainty)
        • (university,uncertainty)
        • (university,america)
        • (university,immigration)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • The visa debacle was only the latest of many ominous signs for the United States, long the world's primary incubator of new technologies, new drugs, new therapies, and new business models.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,therapies)
        • (united_states,technologies)
        • (university,therapies)
        • (university,technologies)
        • (united_states,models)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • More than 80 percent of international doctoral students in artificial intelligence, for example, remain in the country after graduation, according to a December report from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (international,security)
        • (united_states,security)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • "The ten most innovative cities in the United States," a recent research paper points out, "account for 23 percent of the national population, but for 48 percent of its patents and 33 percent of its gross domestic product." The paper goes on to argue that complex industries such as semiconductors, biotechnology, and neurobiology are even more likely to benefit from clustering in big cities when compared with less complex activities such as paper or apparel manufacturing.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,manufacturing)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • Earlier this month , Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that international students attending universities that switch to online-only courses in the fall would be required to leave the United States
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,international)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • These students go on to work for artificial-intelligence companies, logistics firms, biotech labs - or start their own. When given the opportunity, they prefer to stay in the United States. More than 80 percent of international doctoral students in artificial intelligence, for example, remain in the country after graduation, according to a December report from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (united_states,international)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • recently reported that the University of Arizona, for example, expects an 80 percent decline in the number of new international students
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (international,university)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • If they stop coming, that will mean fewer start-ups, fewer tech workers, fewer scientists, and ultimately fewer jobs A s the influx of talented people from overseas slows, university bottom lines will suffer. In the past decade, international students, who typically pay full tuition, have become a major revenue source
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (international,university)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • The looming state budget cuts from the coronavirus recession will only make matters worse, and the many colleges and universities, public and private, that stayed afloat over the past decade by vigorously recruiting international students no longer have that option
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (international,budget)
        • (international,private)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • If they stop coming, that will mean fewer start-ups, fewer tech workers, fewer scientists, and ultimately fewer jobs A s the influx of talented people from overseas slows, university bottom lines will suffer
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (university,workers)
        • (international,workers)
        • (international,scientists)
        • (international,start-ups)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • recently reported that the University of Arizona, for example, expects an 80 percent decline in the number of new international students. And this was before the Trump administration announced a moratorium on a number of work-visa categories that many of these students count on when they make plans to study in the U.S.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (international,work-visa)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • recently reported that the University of Arizona, for example, expects an 80 percent decline in the number of new international students. And this was before the Trump administration announced a moratorium on a number of work-visa categories that many of these students count on when they make plans to study in the U.S
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (international,trump)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • In 2015, a financial-services firm estimated that international students, who made up 12 percent of students enrolled at public universities, were providing about 28 percent of total tuition revenue Public-university budgets were devastated after the Great Recession depleted state coffers.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (international,public-university)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • The visa debacle was only the latest of many ominous signs for the United States, long the world's primary incubator of new technologies, new drugs, new therapies, and new business models
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (pandemic,united_states)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • From 2000 to 2010, more immigrant inventors migrated to the United States than to all other countries combined Juliette Kayyem: Trump turns the US into an outcast But the number of international students is expected to plunge as the pandemic makes overseas travel difficult - and as rising case counts in the United States scare off visitors from other countries
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (university,travel)
        • (pandemic,united_states)
        • (university,countries)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • Silicon Valley and similar clusters now face a rather different challenge: the sudden spike in remote work. The pandemic has reminded people of the value of large living spaces. Already, the least dense zip codes of metropolitan areas have seen home purchases increase twice as much as the densest, according to the American Enterprise Institute's Housing Center
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (pandemic,zip)
        • (pandemic,spaces)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • The coronavirus pandemic and the administration's botched response to it are damaging the engine of American innovation in three major ways: The flow of talented people from overseas is slowing; the university hubs that produce basic research and development are in financial turmoil; and the circulation of people and ideas in high-productivity industrial clusters, such as Silicon Valley, has been impeded
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (pandemic,university)
        • (university,american)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • I n the pas t half century, America's innovation engine - built on an influx of global brainpower, a vibrant university system, cities that encourage the spontaneous interaction of people and ideas - has worked so well that policy makers have taken it for granted
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (pandemic,university)
        • (university,america)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • By threatening student visas, the Trump administration, which has been pushing to reopen businesses and schools despite the continuing pandemic, was widely seen as pressuring colleges to resume in-person classes
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (pandemic,trump)
        • (pandemic,student)
        • (pandemic,pushing)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • The visa debacle was only the latest of many ominous signs for the United States, long the world's primary incubator of new technologies, new drugs, new therapies, and new business models. The coronavirus pandemic and the administration's botched response to it are damaging the engine of American innovation in three major ways: The flow of talented people from overseas is slowing; the university hubs that produce basic research and development are in financial turmoil; and the circulation of people and ideas in high-productivity industrial clusters, such as Silicon Valley, has been impeded
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (pandemic,therapies)
        • (pandemic,models)
        • (pandemic,technologies)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • The coronavirus pandemic and the administration's botched response to it are damaging the engine of American innovation in three major ways: The flow of talented people from overseas is slowing; the university hubs that produce basic research and development are in financial turmoil; and the circulation of people and ideas in high-productivity industrial clusters, such as Silicon Valley, has been impeded.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (pandemic,silicon_valley)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • By threatening student visas, the Trump administration, which has been pushing to reopen businesses and schools despite the continuing pandemic, was widely seen as pressuring colleges to resume in-person classes. If implemented, the visa policy could have driven away thousands of brilliant minds - the brainpower that, for decades, has proved essential to entrepreneurship and technological innovation in the United States
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (pandemic,policy)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • In-person collaboration likely won't resume until federal and state governments succeed in bringing the pandemic under control - something that many other countries have largely managed to do.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (university,countries)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • A reversal of President Trump's immigration freeze would signal that America still wants highly skilled talent from abroad. A huge injection of research funds as suggested by the recent Endless Frontiers Act could help university research labs stay afloat
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (university,america)
        • (university,immigration)

    • WIP (Read more) - Back to HLA
      • In the end, immigration officials backed down amid legal challenges, but some damage was already done: The administration had added to the uncertainty swirling about America's crucial higher-education sector, while also signaling to young people overseas that, should they ever want to attend an American university, they might not be welcome. The visa debacle was only the latest of many ominous signs for the United States, long the world's primary incubator of new technologies, new drugs, new therapies, and new business models
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (university,american)