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摘要

As Asian economies ramp up R&D, and high-tech companies relocate to China and India, Asian science looks unstoppable - apart from one last hurdle: a shortage of local talent. A radical change in Asia's education culture is needed to foster the human capital necessary for innovation-led economies.rnThe exam-centric Asian education system has created a workforce more adept at imitation than innovation (W. Lim Science 327,1576-1577; 2010). Asia-based scientists without Western collaborators therefore seldom publish in highly cited, indexed journals. No Asian nation is represented among the top 20, ranked by the average number of citations per published paper.