Enlightened economic strategy appreciates diversity in population, education and workforce development, including attracting and retaining excellent international inputs through promoting immigration and visas for foreign entrepreneurs, students and workers. Because of current national and local economic, political and global conflict issues, America is facing a crisis of poor inflow of international talent - the world's best and brightest are not coming to America at previous levels, and that is of concern for USA and NEO universities, employers, and overall economic development. Addressing these issues in NEO offers opportunities and competitive advantages here. Read and post related information in this area of REALNEO [1].
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[1] http://realneo.contenthosting.org/node/257
[2] http://realneo.us/internationalizing-neo-economy/visioning-on-rei-11/16/04-the-value-of-international-students-to-northeast-ohio
[3] http://realneo.us/internationalizing-neo-economy/proposal-national-conference-attraction-integration-retention-of-international-talent
[4] http://realneo.us/events/northeast-ohio-international-business-network-noibn-networking-reception-feb-2005
[5] http://realneo.us/events/november-16-2004-the-value-of-international-students-to-northeast-ohio-oct-2004
[6] http://realneo.us/internationalizing-neo-economy/us-isolationism-offers-neo-regional-opportunity-if-we-think-global