Signal Major economies launch aggressive talent-magnet programmes for top researchers

Summary

The plan observes that attracting excellent researchers has become a decisive factor in the success of national science and technology efforts. Major countries are therefore offering unusually generous talent-magnet packages that combine research conditions, pay and living arrangements. The examples it lists are the EU initiative Choose Europe for Science and the German 1,000 Heads Plus Program. It also mentions the Japanese J-RISE initiative and a global talent task force placed directly under the UK prime minister. The plan presents these programmes as part of a wider pattern in which states use talent, capital and institutions as instruments of technology competition.