This document reports the highlights of an international conference designed to study the utilization of highly qualified personnel. Following the opening addresses by various participants, discussion documents and basic reports are presented. Four areas of concern include the state of employment and employment policy, the conditions and aims of education and training, concerted action, and psychological and social factors. Discussion documents cover employment prospects in the 1970's, career development and mobility, and further education and training of highly qualified personnel. The basic reports include employment prospects in the seventies, further education and training of highly qualified personnel, the allocation of labor and the consequences for educational policy, and international movements of scientists and engineers in the 1960's as an aspect of the mobility of highly qualified manpower. The appendices include the agenda, a list of documents submitted to the conference, and a list of participants to the conference. (MJM)