[julie1]

Formation costs money. Losing a gifted student can set back the agenda of a university having almost strong enough results to publish.

When you have the person actually having the bleeding edge knowledge, you can fund him or her to end the work and either publish it (prior act) or develop a usable result that can be patented.

But most of the effort, especially in countries with public education, has been supported by the taxes of the locals.

It is not USA the problem here. Europe and other place with public education are a bunch of bullied that are masochistic and love to be stolen.

When a company claims that it will only steal from foreign entities for your national interest, and never you because you are a special snowflake, it tend to lie.

A pathological thief will steal everyone as long as he is not stopped.