'Beyond Brain Drain'
Mobility, Competitiveness & Scientific Excellence
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Australia's national capacity to train, recruit, attract and retain the sorts of highly skilled scientists, engineers and technologists needed for a knowledge economy was the focus of this high level international workshop held in early 2004.
The workshop aimed to systematically address the following objectives:
- what we know and do not know about brain drain, gain, churn, waste etc issues
- current impediments to effective recruitment, management and retention strategies
- the different ways in which a range of organizations attempt to create value in their capacity to attract personnel (e.g. opportunities for professional and personal development; capacity for profit-sharing and other motivational factors
- ways in which Australia can build national capacity regarding its pool of highly trained SET personnel.
The workshop was limited to approximately seventy invited participants from a diverse range of backgrounds
Presentations included those by: Professor Peter Doherty, Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Patron for the workshop; Dr David Strangway, CEO and President of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation; Professor Luke Georghiou, Director of the Institute for Policy Research in Engineering Science and Technology, UK; Dr Magda Lola, CERN and Secretary General of the Marie Curie Fellowship Association; Professor Peter Andrews, Chief Scientist Queensland, Professor Graeme Hugo, ARC Federation Fellow and Professor Alan Pettigrew, CEO of the NHMRC.
Outcomes from the workshop were disseminated to a number of different audiences including the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering & Innovation Council and the Senate Inquiry into Australian Expatriates.The report was launched by the President of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS), Professor Snow Barlow in September 2004 at Parliament House in Canberra.
Dr Fiona Wood (Convenor) and Prof Snow Barlow (FASTS)
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