Mobile minds: The drivers and effects of international researcher mobility.

It is widely accepted that science and technology are important drivers of economic growth and general welfare. In this context, policy makers are increasinlgy interested in understanding how the international mobility patterns of their researchers will affect their higher education and research systems, and by extension, the economy. Therefore the central theme of this dissertation is international mobility in higher education and research. The aim is to study the drivers and impacts of international mobility on science. The first two chapters will study the drivers of international mobility of students and researchers, respectively. A third chapter will link the international mobility of researchers to their research productivity. This chapter will thus border on the growing literature on the determinants of research productivity. A last and fourth chapter will introduce concepts of social network analysis, by looking at how a researcher s network and mobility patterns influence each other, in particular with regard to scientific productivity.status: publishe