Software development vs universities and scientific papers
Short answer: yes.
Disclaimer: I'm an Associate. Pr. of Computer Science in a University in France. We have several undergraduate and graduate programs that lead to bachelor and master's degree of Computer Science.
As the degree is about Computer Science, we do teach software engineering (among other topics : databases, networking, logic, architecture, compilers, ...).
Some applied program are very applied (the students are working in a company for the duration of their studies, switching every two or three weeks between their company and the lectures at the Uni).
A computer science curriculum where one learns about software development is quite standard (from working with several colleagues from around the world I now that such things exist in the US, UK, most of Europe, Asia, Australia, …).