BioP2P Staff
The Massachusetts-based non-profit life science incubator MBI has issued a report that calls on the state to designate Central Massachusetts as a biomanufacturing hub and outlines a list of programs and strategies it should adopt to position itself to compete against other biomanufacturing centers.
The Worcester, Massachusetts-based organization said to compete for the emerging opportunities in biomanufacturing, the state should build talent capacity, support startups through scale-up manufacturing, incentivize large scale biomanufacturing in central Massachusetts. It outlined a series of steps to do this.
The report notes that Worcester County represents 24 percent of all biomanufacturing jobs in Massachusetts today with 18 percent year-over-year job growth. An analysis by the organization projected upwards of 1,200 additional jobs in Central Massachusetts in the next two to three years.
“Expanding pharmaceutical biomanufacturing beyond the Boston core will support the growing bioindustrial manufacturing sector, where we can improve familiar products such as food and materials by sustainably engineering them with biology instead of limited natural resources,” the report said. “The Commonwealth will leverage the existing talent pools, collaborative partnerships, lower price points, and the availability of land to encourage the cluster expansion that this industry demands.”
Read the report here.