Immigrants Are Crucial to Innovation, US Study Says

Posted on June 26, 2012

A new study, showed that immigrants played a role in more than three out four patents at U.S top research universities.

Conducted by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a nonprofit group co-founded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, the study notes that nearly all the patents were in science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called STEM fields that are a crucial driver of job growth.

New York Times Article, published 25th June 2012 By ANDREW MARTIN