Path Analysis and Enlightenment of Foreign Talents’ Rights Protection in U.S. Universities

With the deepening of economic globalization and talent internationalization, the demonstration role and radiation effect of “talents” have become increasingly prominent. U.S. universities are favored by high-end talents all over the world and this is inseparable from their complete system of rights protection. This paper adheres to the legal status of rights protection and applies the concept of ruling the country according to law. By selecting several U.S. universities as the research sample, it aims to construct a complete rights protection system for foreign talents working in Chinese universities. Through literature review, international comparison and investigation, it turns out that U.S. universities have rich and incentive-oriented salary system, broad and flexible-chosen benefits, complete and law-based intellectual property protection and scientific two-time performance evaluation. All these have great reference significance to China’s talent-priority strategy and innovation-driven strategy. Keywords—U.S. universities; foreign talents; rights protection