Global research collaboration is booming, as is patenting. Globalization and cross-national collaboration have such a dramatic effect on research and design that about one-half of all patents granted in America list at least one non-U.S. citizen as a coinventor. Major U.S. universities, like the University of Texas and the University of Wisconsin, are eager to patent their inventions and to reap the benefits of technology transfer and commercialized research.

Historically, corporate America's dollars were spent at labs within the bounds of the U.S., but today, more and more projects are going to company-owned and outsourced labs overseas. The outsourcing and offshoring of research and engineering projects are common practice. Due to low costs and large talent pools (including large numbers of new graduates with engineering and scientific degrees), the nations of China and India in particular are attracting more and more of the research dollars invested by U.S., Japanese and European companies.

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