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Diasporas stand out as an economic or cultural avant-garde of transformation.
This is especially true for academic and other intellectual Diaspora
communities, because science and knowledge creation are global enterprises.
Proclivity of knowledge workers to move in order to improve and absorb
transnational knowledge through Diaspora networks might be an essential
quality of an emerging national economy of a developing country. The article
treats the role of expert Diaspora in knowledge based economy, innovation and
talent management. Besides presenting the essentials of knowledge based
economy and innovation, it discusses the role of expert Diaspora in science,
technology and innovation (STI) capacity building. Also, the article
emphasizes the importance of leadership for talent and its implications for
Diaspora. Using WEF statistics, it illustrates negative consequences of the
sad policy of ?Chaseaway the brightest and the best? for innovative capacity,
competitiveness, and prosperity of nations.

Diasporas have been making contributions to their motherland for a long time (Ionescu, 2006), without waiting for policies to rally them and, if truth be told, very often finding them to be the major obstacles for establishing the partnership. However, diaspora-motherland partnership is closely related to institutional frameworks, socio-economic settings, political milieu as well as issues of perceptions, images, trust and social identification, in both the home and host country, most of which are within the scope of public administration. Moreover, the evolution of policy awareness and a thorough understanding of the diaspora and development nexus are, in some countries, the result of the efforts of public administration. The development of diaspora strategies is essential because it demonstrates how state agencies, policy makers and individual citizens themselves have begun to think beyond national borders and make efforts to build non-territorial forms of organisation, such as Diaspora Virtual University. Promotion of networks, strategic alliances and sustained institutional cooperation between diaspora and the policy makers such as the Ministries for Diaspora, as well as other officials dealing with diaspora and development related issues have become the subject of primary interest in many countries, one of them being Serbia. As a part of the effort to formulate effective and just policies used to respond to the brain drain, the paper analyses and recommends different policy types. Among different models of academic diaspora congregation is, no doubt, the alumni model, which proved to be very useful for both, developed and developing countries. The paper presents the concept as a part of the »brain gain« model and states the principles distilled from the alumni concept experience, which summarize the current wisdom regarding development of a community which will serve as the »intelligence pool« for Diaspora Virtual University. Different types of remittances, as well as pessimistic and optimistic perspectives on remittances, are analyzed in the paper, and recommendations are summarized for current and future policy makers. Recognizing diaspora as a valuable foreign investor a model of partnership through the Serbian Regional Chambers of Commerce is also proposed.

This article discusses benchmarking theory, its private sector roots and its implementation in the public sector thus far. The overall purpose of this article is the proper porting of the benchmarking process into the public administration sector. Essentially, what all differences between private and public sector imply is that the public sector does not seek value-for-money. Also, literature on benchmarking in the public sector appears to be less organized and orderly than literature on benchmarking in the private sector. This article bridges this gap in order to answer the question can benchmarking function as efficiently and effectively in the public administration sector as in any private sector organization by showing how governments have been able to utilize benchmarking in order to improve their performances. The use of series of benchmarks can help in making a solid base for factual approach to decision making with regard to setting specific targets for performances of the public administration system, its reform and modernization, and monitoring progress over time. The Public Sector Benchmark of the Republic of Ireland and the Public Sector Comparator of South Africa will be used to show how experimental implementation of benchmarking has been able to produce effective results. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.24.4.2785