Partnership for a New American Economy

AFP
June 26, 2012

Foreign students are cooking up a storm at US universities leading cutting-edge innovation, and are behind an overwhelming number of patents for new inventions, a new study said Tuesday.

"More than three out of every four patents at the top 10 patent-producing US universities (76 percent) had at least one foreign-born inventor," said the report "Patent Pending: How Immigrants Are Reinventing The American Economy."

The study came from "The Partnership for a New American Economy" bringing together over 450 Republican, Democratic and independent business leaders.

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