The Brain Drain narrative is officially over. Countries still mourning it will wonder where they went wrong.
For fifty years, the talent story of the global innovation economy ran in one direction. Scientists and engineers from China, Poland, Israel, Taiwan, India and Brazil moved to the United States and Western Europe. They built careers, companies, and intellectual property there. The countries they left lamented the loss while the ones that received them built Silicon Valley and the research institutions that anchored them. That story is not over but it is no longer dominant either. Something...