The Diaspora as a Nation’S Capital: Crowdsourcing Strategies for the Caucasus

Caucasian societies suffer from a tremendous brain drain to so-called more advanced societies. Against this background, the paper discusses crowdsourcing, a recent trend in open innovation, as a means of reducing or even inverting the brain drain of Caucasian societies.

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