A significant gap exists in the biopharmaceutical industry between the academic development of students and the professional development of incumbent employees. This gap is further exacerbated by a tendency to immediately train new employees in a specific area or function both quickly and deeply based on the immediate workforce needs. This leaves students
or new employees with very little systems level awareness, or understanding of what the
biomanufacturing challenges and opportunities are beyond their initial area of exposure.
The initial silos that this process creates can last for many years of an employees career, and contribute to a lack of systems level thinking across an organization.
The most direct way to address this gap is to create a model that jointly delivers trainings with co-owned learning objectives, content and outcomes. This can be achieved by directly pairing in-house industry training programs with an academic component that is based on the individual strengths of the partners and clearly identified training needs/value for the target audience. A
hybrid model of this type has the potential to create a clearly defined, sustainable pipeline of attendees that de-risks the value proposition for both academic and industry partners.
OUTPUTS
Playbook of best practices for reproducing this collaborative model between other partners
Provide access to flexible and modular training resources that can address rapidly evolving areas in biomanufacturing
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MilliporeSigma/EMD Serono
