John Doer, who is the pre-eminent venture capitalist in the world, was asked why he was involved with Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems, but not Cisco, three of the great technology successes in the U.S.—why he was involved with the first two and not the latter when they came out of the same engineering school at about the same time with the same dean at Stanfo ...[+++]rd. He said, “Well, Sun is on the first floor, Silicon Graphics is on the second, and Cisco is in the basement; I guess I never visited the basement”.

The other point is that if you look at the engineering sciences and applied sciences, there are typically four to five technicians and technologists for each engineer.

5. Top bottleneck occupations can be found, for example, in the field of health (in particular medical doctors, pharmacologists and nurses), in the field of ICT (in particular IT consultants and software programmers), in the field of engineering (in particular specialised engineers) and in the field of finances (business professionals, e.g. accountants).

Our mineral resource technologist program should soon be ready to articulate directly into the mine engineering program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

19. Stresses that the existence of sound and effective STI systems cannot be separated from the presence in all Member States of high-quality, inclusive public education systems capable of promoting access for all on a non-discriminatory basis to the highest educational levels; advocates special attention to the areas of science and engineering, the environment and health; emphasises that in some of those fields and in some Member States years of disinvestment or underinvestment have resulted in a severe lack of specialised personnel, including technicians and researchers, and that this trend needs to be reversed;

(H) Whereas the dismissed workers belong to highly skilled, well-educated or specialised workers: 23,08% are engineering science technicians, 22,26% are engineers, 22,91 are manufacturing labourers and 21,60% are machine operators and assemblers.