Greater Philadelphia offers you one of America's most capable life science labor pools with a highly skilled life science workforce.
- Skilled employees with expertise that spans the entire commercialization process for drug candidates (from clinical trials, regulatory approvals, sales & marketing, developing reimbursement agreements).
- Our workforce serves some of the world's top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Centocor, Cephalon, DuPont, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, NovoNordisk, Sanofi Aventis, Shire and Wyeth.
- Graduates in key life sciences disciplines with baccalaureate to post-doctoral levels.
- Greater Philadelphia is home to over 92 colleges, research institutes medical schools and universities ensuring a constant stream of highly qualified job candidates.
- In Greater Philadelphia, industry and academia work together to develop curriculum that assures job candidates have precisely the skills life sciences companies are looking for.
Greater Philadelphia has the pool of professionals needed to move drug candidates through clinical trials and regulatory approvals.
Specialists in Technology Transfer. Legal experts who help facilitate licensing agreements, joint ventures and patents.
Sales representatives. Bio-pharma-focused marketing agencies, branding, packaging and interactive design firms. Regionally based logistics and distribution professionals, who can quickly deliver drugs and medical products to the global marketplace with maximum cost-efficiency. Given all these labor advantages, it's no surprise that Greater Philadelphia ranked #1 in the 2005 Milken Report's Current Impact Index, besting all other U.S. metropolitan areas.
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| Academic Degrees Awarded in Entrepreneurship: |
| Rank |
MSA |
Number 1991-2001 |
Per 100,000 People,
Age 25-34
|
Score |
| 1 |
Greater Philadelphia |
921 |
114.3 |
100.0 |
| 2 |
Dallas |
407 |
45.5 |
84.3 |
| 3 |
Chicago |
459 |
33. |
81.8 |
| 4 |
Boston |
96 |
14.4 |
61.6 |
| 5 |
Minneapolis |
44 |
9.6 |
51.6 |
| 6 |
Seattle |
26 |
5.4 |
41.6 |
| 7 |
San Diego |
13 |
2.9 |
30.1 |
| 8 |
Greater New York |
13 |
0.5 |
18.8 |
| 9 |
Greater San Francisco |
9 |
0.9 |
16.1 |
| 10 |
Greater Los Angeles |
5 |
0.2 |
11.8 |
| 11 |
Greater Raleigh/Durham |
0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| Current Impact Measures (CIM Scores for Pharmaceuticals): |
| Rank |
MSA |
Composite Index |
| 1 |
Greater Philadelphia |
100 |
| 2 |
Greater New York |
81 |
| 3 |
Greater Raleigh/Durham |
69 |
| 4 |
Greater San Francisco |
62 |
| 5 |
Chicago |
55 |
| 6 |
Greater Los Angeles |
54 |
| 7 |
San Diego |
53 |
| 8 |
Boston |
50 |
| 9 |
Seattle |
45 |
| 10 |
Minneapolis |
38 |
| 11 |
Dallas |
34 |
| Number of Life Sciences Ph.D Granting Institutions: |
| Rank |
MSA |
Number 2001 |
Per 100,000 People,
Age 25-34
|
Score |
| 1 |
Boston |
12 |
1.8 |
100.0 |
| 2 |
Greater Philadelphia |
12 |
1.5 |
92.4 |
| 3 |
Greater Raleigh/Durham |
5 |
2.3 |
92.4 |
| 4 |
Greater New York |
19 |
0.8 |
85.2 |
| 5 |
Dallas |
9 |
1.0 |
74.1 |
| 6 |
Chicago |
10 |
0.7 |
69.4 |
| 7 |
Greater San Francisco |
5 |
0.5 |
48.7 |
| 8 |
Greater Los Angeles |
6 |
0.3 |
47.1 |
| 9 |
San Diego |
2 |
0.4 |
26.6 |
| 10 |
Minneapolis |
2 |
0.4 |
26.3 |
| 11 |
Seattle |
2 |
0.4 |
25.7 |
| Life Science Workforce Intensity of Medical and Health Service Managers: |
| Rank |
MSA |
Number 2003 |
Per 100,000
Workers, 2003
|
Score |
| 1 |
Greater New York |
18,260 |
235.5 |
100.0 |
| 2 |
Greater Philadelphia |
6,670 |
234.8 |
94.8 |
| 3 |
Dallas |
5,840 |
222.2 |
93.6 |
| 4 |
Boston |
4,730 |
249.1 |
93.6 |
| 5 |
Chicago |
5,940 |
140.4 |
89.5 |
| 6 |
Minneapolis |
2,950 |
176.5 |
88.0 |
| 7 |
Greater Los Angeles |
6,040 |
105.7 |
87.0 |
| 8 |
Greater San Francisco |
3,130 |
110.9 |
84.1 |
| 9 |
Greater Raleigh/Durham |
1,220 |
182.6 |
83.8 |
| 10 |
San Diego |
1,650 |
131.9 |
82.4 |
| 11 |
Seattle |
1,300 |
85.3 |
77.2 |
Call a Select Greater Philadelphia representative at 800-221-0774 to learn more about our region's life sciences workforce, academic links and educational initiatives.
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