Past Event
Universities, High-skilled Immigration, and Regulatory Reform: Implications for America's Economic Future (Offsite)
A panel of experts will discuss key aspects of the Start-Up Act with a special focus on the provisions designed to accelerate the commercialization of university research, the regulating of start-up companies, and the broadening of opportunities for temporary immigrants with post-graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to eventually quality for permanent residency visas.
This event will be held in B-369 Rayburn House Office Building.
Speakers
Kent Hughes
Public Policy Fellow;
Former Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center
Former Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center
Joseph Kennedy
Former Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Commerce
Jim Woodell
Director of Innovation and Technology Policy, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
Karthick Ramakrishnan
Former Scholar;
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California-Riverside
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California-Riverside