In biotechnology it's not only the shortage of people we're going to experience, but also it's mainly skills development, because it takes a lot of years to get the skills required to work in the biotechnology sector. Therefore, we need to find a way of getting the skills into our sector. One we're working on is the immigration issue, because a lot of skilled people are coming to our country, and we're working very actively. Currently I'm doing an environmental scan and working with them to see how we can bring them in and identify competencies instead of credentials, so we can bring them into our sector closer and faster.
On October 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.