Making profits out of hope

How desperation and innovation combined to create a business

A DEFINING image of the new wave of globalisation—and the attempts to hold it back—is a newly arrived migrant on a European beach, clutching a mobile phone and hoping for a newlife. Never before have rich countries raised their walls …

Ukrainians are powering Poland’s economy

Now Poles worry that visa-free travel may lure them to the rest of the EU

Poland’S most visible labour market begins shortly after dawn. About 30 women and a similar number of men wait in separate groups beside a road half an hour’s drive south of Warsaw. The eager stand …

The effects of migration on countries of origin and destination

Migration spreads ideas. Often, good ones. Sometimes as simple as warm cassava buns stuffed with cheese.  Cristina Talacko moved to Australia because she married an Australian. Her foreign law degrees did not allow her to practise there so she started her own business. She noticed that her friends loved it when …

Refugees make great entrepreneurs and workers

If only they are allowed to

Mohammed rahimeh in December 2015, rather than be left Damascus conscripted into the Syrian army. His journey to London took him through Lebanon and Greece and included 11 months in the notorious “Jungle” camp in Calais. Despite leaving Syria with no cooking qualifications …

How Germany’s guest workers become guest entrepreneurs

Migrants are likelier than other Germans to start businesses

TO THE CONSTERNATION of Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, much of the couple’s coverage in the German press focused on their Turkish roots. “Our world can be saved. From Mainz. By children of migrants,” was a headline in Bild, Germany’s best-selling …

The corona destroyer is an immigrant

 While the COVID-19 pandemic still very much here and taking thousands of lives around the world each day, and with specialists only predicting more new cases and deaths in winter as the next waves fast approach, the news of developing the first clinically approved vaccine by a German-Turkish couple at …

A Review of Scientific and Technological Potential of Iran

The latest report issued by the Global Innovation Index (GII) acknowledges Iran as a regional leader in innovation. The annual report evaluates and ranks the innovation performance of close to 130 economies worldwide. According to the 2018 edition, the Islamic Republic of Iran ranked 65th in the world. Having ranked …

Vice-president for Science and Technology Affairs and head of National Elites Foundation meets Afghan officials and academics in Tehran

In this meeting, Dr. Sorena Sattari described some of the difficulties and challenges faced by Afghan elites in their native country as "clear injustice" and promised to work closely with the embassy of Afghanistan to ensure that all such problems are eliminated. The Afghan ambassador requested Dr. Sattari's urgent attention …