...Domingo Ribeiro Soriano; Luis E. Vila; Pedro J. Perez; Francisco G. Morillas Purpose This paper aims to analyze the production function nexus between higher education practice and the development of innovation‐related competencies by university graduates in Spain. The research hypothesis...

.... The profession, into which their graduates move, pulls them to deal with immediately relevant, practical problems. The two also seek different characteristics in curriculum, the academy emphasizing that which will groom future scientists and the profession emphasizing that which will produce immediately...

...Peter Hawkins; Ian Barclay The recruitment of engineering (and science)based graduates and their subsequent development to managerial status is discussed. The problems that organisations experience in the recruitment process are described and ways in which the success rate can be improved...