Banks have taken much of the cream of the scientific talent in America and Europe, and to what end?

ECONOMIST: A mighty crash

This is a remarkably high number of Laureates from any one country, highlighting how the UK is an excellent incubator of scientific talent.

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There can be few surer ways to drain scientific talent from a country than to stop that talent telling the world what it has achieved.

ECONOMIST: Academic freedom

The seeds for this conglomeration of scientific talent were a cluster of research institutes like Salk, Burnham and Scripps, all near La Jolla, plus the University of California campus.

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This attitude is reflected in her personal philanthropy, which focuses heavily on nurturing scientific and engineering talent at her alma mater and helping military families (her son-in-law is a Marine who has deployed three times in recent years).

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Scientific processes have only been with us a few hundred years, talent management processes a few decades.

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