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 Wilson Center
Former Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson 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