Canada's "Thousand Talent Program" : How Canada research chair program attracts Chinese academics

"As a result of globalization, academics have become more mobile and are motivated to move to institutions that have the most favourable research funding and work environment. The university is now viewed as a magnet for academic talent from across the world, and a key institution that enhances competitiveness by connecting cities and nations to global flows of knowledge and talent. Given that fact, what factors influence and explain the direction of global brain flows? The purpose of this research is to shed light on the relative strengths of the factors that prompted a group of Canada Research Chair (CRC) holders from China to choose to work in Canadian universities, against the backdrop of the shift of the global centre of economic gravity towards Asia. Such a shift finds expression as well in the academic arena, so it is particularly interesting to track the views of Chinese scholars holding chairs in Canadian universities"--page 2.