November 13, 2006
Research Outsourcing Worries US Academic Circles
While outsourcing has been widely accepted as a necessary evil across the United States, there is one area, which is still held as sacrosanct in academic circles – research (where effective communicating and conferencing can be difficult across oceans). Now, there is growing concern that the US might lose its competitive edge by outsourcing jobs, which are on the bleeding edge of research to countries like India and China. DNAIndia.com reports:
University of Texas Professor Ted Rappaport’s research shows that all but five of the 57 major research initiatives announced were located outside the US. “The professor believes that as a result, US students have lost interest in entering graduate school to pursue research in the telecom field,” said the BusinessWeek column.
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