The Spanish Ministries for Science and Innovation and for Labor and Immigration today announced that they will jointly fund the initial training in research, development, and innovation of Ph.D.-holders and university graduates after recruitment by industry. The program is part of a national effort to boost innovation in Spanish industry.
The initiative is part of the INNCORPORA funding program, which offers companies, scientific parks, and technological centers loans and grants to facilitate the employment of innovation-oriented staff from Ph.D.-holders to technicians, and support their training. The INNCORPORA initiative, which was launched in 2010, includes the Torres Quevedo program for the employment of Ph.D.-holders and the Titulados Universitarios program for technologists with a university diploma. This year, the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation has more than 440 million euros at its disposal to promote the employment of innovation-oriented staff and the competitiveness of the Spanish industry.
"The objective is to equip the new hires with the training that the company needs in terms of R&D and innovation [and] with the capacities to generate new ideas, knowledge about opportunities for public funding, patents, internationalization, etc," the press release says (in Spanish).
