To obtain the “1.2 million additional research personnel, including 700.000udadditional researchers” necessary to “irrigate” the industries science-based, theudEU stresses that it is not sufficient increase the investment in Research. We haveudto stop the European Brain Drain. We have to reverse it; “Europeans who haveudmoved abroad would love to come home”. We have to remember that the “B rainudDrain should work in both directions”, then we have to attract foreign brilliantudscientists and compete to the USA.udIn this paper we give a survey of the principal “Brain Drain Competition” policiesudimplemented in Europe. The key strategies and mecha nisms found are: makingudthe academic system more open and flexible; improving the regulatory conditionsudparticularly on immigration; better sign-posting and information at national level;uddedicated grants for foreign researchers; adapting income situations to marketudforces; providing tax reductions specifically for researchers and knowledgeudworkers; more active international marketing and support for internationaludresearchers.udFinally, we analyse the effects of these policies on the Brain Drain in Europe byudgiving examples of countries (i.e. UK, France, Germany, Belgium, etc) that thatudeffectively reverse the Brain Drain and attract foreign researchers, and theudexemplum of the Italy that it is “a countries that supplies talent to Europe and theudAmericas”.
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