Fostering and attracting the skills required for future discovery and innovation.
Foster and attract the skills, and develop the culture required for discovery and innovation
Our progress so far:
- Development of regional Opportunities Hub, through Anglia Ruskin University, to support brokerage, placements and mentorship across cluster
- Increased apprenticeship numbers and creation of new courses in response to workforce needs, such as lab sciences and data-science degree apprenticeships
- Initiation of a pilot to support apprenticeship brokerage on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Development of a Flexi Apprenticeship pilot at the Babraham Research Campus
- Developing a Multi-Mentor hub to support high-growth business
What’s next?
- Support for specialisms beyond the traditional life sciences knowledge engine, including data, AI, machine learning, and engineering
- Develop a multidisciplinary talent pool that expects talent to move between, and work across, different institutions, take risk, value diversity, and drive impact from discoveries
- Facilitate a range of entry levels to life sciences employment, to leverage local talent and wider regional economic benefit from cluster activity
- Embed commercial awareness and leadership training and mentorship, to enhance and nurture an entrepreneurial culture
- Encourage inward investors to bring in new international growth talent to support scaling businesses
- Create new, green health and life sciences roles, and additional skills, to transition the health and life sciences sector to a green sustainable economy
