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Georgia's Work Ready Regions is an industry cluster strategy. Each region is an industry-led effort headed by an industry leader and guided by the region's existing industry network. The result is a linking of education, workforce development and training aligned to the needs of the regional bioscience industry. Its bioscience industry network is known as the Innovation Crescent Industry Network.  The Innovation Crescent Regional Partnership is an organization formed by local chambers who embrace and promote the strength of their collective regional bioscience assets.

The Innovation Crescent includes Barrow, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton Counties. All the counties in the region are currently working toward Certified Work Ready Community status.

The region is emerging as a hub of life science in the Southeast with top research institutions such as Emory University, Georgia Tech, University of Georgia and Georgia State University; government entities and nonprofit organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Arthritis Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture and American Cancer Society; a wide range of bioscience companies. Its current workforce is highly educated and has the skills to support bioscience innovation. Click here for more detail about the region's workforce