Top 10 Validation Challenges for Life Sciences SMBs in 2022

We surveyed medium sized pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the United States and Europe to uncover their top ten validation challenges, here’s what we found.

Contrary to its ‘big-pharma’ reputation, the life sciences industry is comprised mostly of smaller companies, with more than 90% of the industry constituted by small to medium size businesses (SMBs) generating less than $1 billion in sales. Life sciences SMBs are growing quickly too, with revenue growth reaching a strong 6.9% in 2020.

Despite this, most industry thought leadership, insight and solutions focus on the challenges and opportunities of larger organizations. To better understand the validation challenges of medium sized companies, we surveyed a group of pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations in the United States and Europe to uncover their top ten validation challenges – here’s what we found.

Our survey results

The top-10 validation challenges facing SMBs today

Ranked from most to least important, the top ten validation challenges facing medium sized companies today are:

‘Lack of human resources was ranked overall in pole position, having been ranked in the top three by 86% of respondents. Validation in the Life Science industry is a highly knowledge-driven and technology-based process that relies heavily on its human resources. So perhaps it is not surprising that smaller organizations’ validation and quality assurance experts find ‘having to do more with less’ particularly onerous.

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For our full survey results and more insight into the challenges facing life sciences SMBs and insight into how to overcome them, read our e-Book Overcoming Validation Challenges for SMB’s.

• Understand the validation challenges unique to life sciences SMBs
• Gain insight into the impact regulatory burden is having on the sector
• Learn ways to address these challenges 

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About our survey

Our respondents replied to an online survey conducted between January 18 and January 25, 2022. Respondents were comprised of manager level up professionals working in validation and quality assurance functions, of small to medium sized pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies located in the United States and Europe.

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Register today for our webinar “Overcoming Validation Challenges for SMBs” to discover more about the validation challenges of small to medium sized companies and how to resolve them faster, for less on-budget – with Kneat Go.

Our live webinar takes place on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 15:30-16:30 GMT / 10:30-11.30 ET.