A new report screams and cries on how foreigners are not flooding the region in 2009.

Associated Press:

Silicon Valley is no longer able to attract the foreign talent which has been its "lifeblood" and funding innovation through locally raised venture capital and public offerings "can no longer be taken as a given," the report said.

A New York Times article claims the corporate Research & Development lab is dead. You know, those places which created the transistor, satellite communications, computer processors, databases...yuppers...all of that is now just a huge waste of time and money.

So, in the Internet era, what is the continuing role and comparative advantage of the corporate R.& D. lab?

Since forcing Americans to train their replacements before being fired finally received some press, keywords like H-1B, L-1, F-4 and immigration have been scrutinized by the American public as just a lot of noise to displace U.S. workers. In other words, the American people are not so fooled anymore on methods to lower wages and displace U.S. workers.

Enter the new type of rebranding of wage arbitrage, keyword innovation policy.