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Immigrants Are Crucial to Innovation, Study Says
Wenyuan Shi, a native of China, earned a patent in 2011 for the active ingredient in a lollipop that can help prevent tooth decay.
Credit: U.C.L.A. School of Dentistry
Arguing against immigration policies that force foreign-born innovators to leave the United States, a new study to be released on Tuesday shows that immigrants played a role in more than three out of four patents at the nation’s top research universities.
From The New York Times
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