We’ve talked a bit about the opportunities for entrepreneurs using the frames of emerging trends and new platforms, but might the best opportunities exist outside the United States?

Paul Saffo, Harvard Business Review, A Looming American Diaspora:

When young knowledge workers look for a job today, they seriously consider companies half a world away. Homegrown American talent is moving abroad, in what could become a huge shift in the world economic order.

…The U.S. monopoly on leading-edge opportunities is at an end. The world’s best and brightest no longer assume that their future lies exclusively in the United States, and America’s best are coming to agree: Their path to a dream career may well lead them overseas.

It wouldn’t be surprising to see American knowledge and business talent follow the increasingly strong economic opportunities around the world. But is there any data to support the idea? Or at least any anecdotal evidence from people you know?

Lately I’ve been thinking of re-joining the American diaspora…