I concur with the, er... “local maxima” in terms of hiring. I routinely visit three local colleges and the number of foreign professors is just a rounding error-partly because there is no budget to allow for more, and partly because colleges have taken to turn to invited professors from local industry (often former colleagues who left academia but can teach).

This is a cheaper and easier way to get industry insights than chasing companies for grants (which, of course, are not easy to come by here).