{"70418":{"#nid":"70418","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Stephen Fleming Discusses Immigration and Competitiveness at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Forum","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EEach year, more than a hundred nations send their best and\nbrightest students to Georgia Tech, where they learn science, engineering and\nother key disciplines in an environment that is increasingly focused on\nentrepreneurship.\u0026nbsp; When they graduate\nwith some of the best science and engineering educations available in the world\ntoday, current U.S. immigration polices give these students two options: go\nback home, or be hired by a company large enough to afford to help them stay.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s a huge loss of innovation and entrepreneurship at a\ntime when the United States desperately needs both.\u0026nbsp; Stephen Fleming, a Georgia Tech vice\npresident and executive director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Enterprise Innovation\nInstitute, recently told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce forum that this loss costs\nU.S. competitiveness and jobs, both present and future.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a former venture capitalist now responsible for Georgia\nTech\u2019s programs for high-tech startup companies, Fleming meets many students with\ntechnical backgrounds who have the entrepreneurial bent.\u0026nbsp; One statistic he cited: of 28 students in a\nrecent innovation competition, 26 were from overseas. \u0026nbsp;Under our current status, those 26 represent\nentrepreneurial talent for our competitors.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EImmigration has been a hot-button issue for several years\nnow, but Fleming points out that immigrants have been powering U.S.\nentrepreneurship \u2013 and some of our most innovative companies \u2013 for\ndecades.\u0026nbsp; Our higher education system\nattracts the best students from around the world, so why shouldn\u2019t we be taking\nadvantage of that, seeing that as an opportunity rather than a problem?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERead Fleming\u2019s comments \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/academicvc.com\/2011\/09\/28\/immigration-and-competitiveness\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\nand see a video of his presentation on C-SPAN.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStephen Fleming, a Georgia Tech vice\npresident and executive director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Enterprise Innovation\nInstitute, recently told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce forum that this loss costs\nU.S. competitiveness and jobs, both present and future.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Stephen Fleming shares thoughts on competitiveness with a U.S. Chamber of Commerce forum."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2011-09-30 08:45:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:18","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-09-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-09-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46279":{"id":"46279","type":"image","title":"Stephen Fleming","body":null,"created":"1449174375","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:26:15","changed":"1475894414","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:14","alt":"Stephen Fleming","file":{"fid":"101065","name":"thc77449.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thc77449_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thc77449_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1724427,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thc77449_0.jpg?itok=Lkyhor_0"}}},"media_ids":["46279"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"}],"keywords":[{"id":"287","name":"Competitiveness"},{"id":"3461","name":"D.C."},{"id":"167668","name":"Stephen Fleming"},{"id":"14489","name":"U.S. Chamber of Commerce"},{"id":"3917","name":"washington"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon, 404-894-6986\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["john.toon@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}