Description:

The Buffett Institute's Elliott Scholars Program invites the Northwestern University community to a talk and discussion with Raúl Delgado Wise, Professor of Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, on the architecture of global innovation systems and skilled migration.

The new ways of organizing the general intellect—Marx’s term for the social character of accumulated knowledge—have made possible an unprecedented concentration of patents in the hands of a few large corporations. In this context, skilled migration is gaining increasing importance because it marks the beginning of a new dynamic of development present in North-South relations. Professor Delgado Wise's talk will analyze this phenomenon from a critical perspective based on Latin American development. A reception will follow the event.

This event is co-sponsored by Northwestern's Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program.

About the Elliott Speaker Series
As part of the Elliott Scholars Program, the Buffett Institute invites academics, practitioners and activists working in areas related to international development to the Northwestern campus for short residencies. While on campus, these guests engage with the Elliott Scholars cohort and the wider Northwestern community.

Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.