Joi lto’s post caught my eye. Time to re-evaluate our immigration policy and rethink whether we could offer some real carrots to foreign workers to come live&work in Finland or do nothing and continue business as usual?

Before the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the GDP share of the world was in ratio to the population of each country.

However, due to the rise of ideologies such as capitalism and communism and differences in technology development have significantly influenced the GDP share over the past 150 years.

Nowadays, thanks to IT that allows high propagation of technologies, as well as the commingling of ideologies, the GDP share is moving back to what it had been before the Industrial Revolution.

Not that I think we could get half the China to move to Finland, but that’s no excuse to do more than we’re doing at the moment. Even though I believe shaking things up in the academia and trying something new is a good development in itself, I hope the powers that be won’t be blinded by the Innovation University as an answer to all the challenges for the years to come.

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