student pulse
What after you pass an
exam, what after you
get an admission, what
after you are eligible
to begin your research,
what after you are
ready with your
results/product? How
will you market it,
how will you generate
investments to scale
up its production,
how will you create
a brand name, how
will you go global,
how will you prepare
the infrastructure for
what’s to come next?
Biotechnology being
all about the future,
how do you expect
to contribute to an
unexploited, booming
industry when you are
never taught to look
beyond yourself, into
the future?
Time to go to the
roots cause of the
issue
As long as a
biotechnology
classroom sticks to its
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conventional book-to-
lab practice, and does
not teach its students
about sustainable
entrepreneurship,
they’ll never be more
than an unprepared
and helpless scientist
once they step
foot outside their
institutions. They will
be armed with their
patents and products,
but with no knowledge
of what next, how to
go big with it. They’ll
be the masters of their
own inventions, but
slaves to those who
know how to make
it reach the masses.
A greater good can
only be achieved if
a product reaches
those truly in need of
it, efficiently. There
is no use or honor in
creating a life-saving
product which is
functional only on
papers. They will be
like a loaded gun, with
no trigger.
Course curriculums
should teach a
biotechnology student
to always look forward
to being self-sufficient,
have a plan to not
just produce, but to
produce and pack
and present to the
table of the needy.
Teachers should be
all encompassing
units, not just scribes
who translate words
into monotonous lab
practices, that is they
should encourage a
student to look beyond
the next exams, to how
a particular chapter
holds potential to save
mankind decades into
the future.
The key lies in
proper orientation
and guidance, and
most importantly,
factually leading the
students to believe
that, biotechnology
is, indeed the future,
the boom is a real
thing and the $100
billion dream is not
impossible.
After all, it is the third