It pays to promote joint PhD programmes between academia and the private sector

Anita Aperia; Jorgen Dirach; Mike Hardman; Christa Janko; Jeff Kipling; Rebecca Ludwig; Lena Scott; Armel Stockis

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It pays to promote joint PhD programmes between academia and the private sector

Anita Aperia¹, Jorgen Dirach², Mike Hardman^3*, Christa Janko⁴, Jeff Kipling⁵, Rebecca Ludwig⁶, Lena Scott¹, Armel Stockis⁷

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¹ Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institute, Solnavägen 1, 171 77 Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

² Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Allé, 2880 Bagsværd, Denmark

³ AstraZeneca, Innovative Medicines, Mereside Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, UK

⁴ Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

⁵ GlaxoSmithKline, GSK House, 980 Great West Rd, Brentford, London, Middlesex TW8 9GS, UK

⁶ Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany

⁷ UCB S.A., Allée de la Recherche 60, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium

JMDS 2017 , 2(1), 37–40; https://doi.org/10.18063/jmds.v1i2.133

Submitted: 29 September 2015 | Accepted: 11 December 2015

© 2017 by the Author(s). Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )

Abstract

The prosperity of a country is closely related to its level of education to fuel research and innovation. Doctoral graduates have attained the highest education level and should be the key players in research and innovation. The number of doctoral graduates is increasing rapidly in most/many countries, but is less well correlated to changes in prosperity of a country.
The innovative medicines initiative (IMI) was established to help Europe strengthen its position in biomedical research and development. During its planning stage IMI observed large gaps in the scientific interaction between academia and industry in Europe, and that undergraduate students were not realizing the career opportunities within biomedical R&D. A major objective for the education and training section of IMI, the European Medicines Research Training Network (EMTRAIN, http://www.emtrain.eu), has therefore been to work out a framework for public private partnership PhD (PPP-PhD) and to create a cohort of networking, industry-aware scientists.

Keywords

public-private partnership

PhD

industry-awareness

competency profiles

IMI

EMTRAIN

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