美国工业实际上是依赖外国科学家和工程师,据国立科学基金会科学资源研究部的报告指出,1985年6月对300家公司的调查发现有一半的公司雇用了非美国籍的科学家和工程师,这些雇用人员主要分布在化学/制药工业(被调查公司的62％)、电子工业(52％)和独立的商业研究与开发实验室(72％)。在加利福尼亚的硅谷,被调查公司的三分之二都雇用了外国科学家和工程师。从1984年6月到1985年6月期间,这些公司雇用的科学家和工程 According to a report by the National Science Foundation's Department of Scientific Resources, U.S. surveys of 300 companies in June 1985 found that half of the companies employed non-U.S. scientists and engineers, and that these industries actually rely on foreign scientists and engineers. Employed mainly in the chemical / pharmaceutical industry (62% of surveyed companies), the electronics industry (52%) and independent commercial research and development laboratories (72%). In Silicon Valley, California, two-thirds of surveyed companies employ foreign scientists and engineers. From June 1984 to June 1985, these companies employed scientists and engineering