R&D Leadership

 The Bay Area’s innovative,
 knowledge-based economy is driven
 by an extensive research and
 development infrastructure.

The San Francisco Bay Area is a
truly unique region with an unparalleled
research and development infrastructure
that includes renowned:

• Research Universities
• National Research Laboratories
• Independent Research Institutes
• New Collaborative Biotech Research Centers

North Bay

Buck Institute for Age Research

Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology at University of California, Davis

Genome and Biomedical Sciences Building at University of California, Davis

Marine Mammal Center

Metabolomics Center at University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

East Bay

Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute

CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) UC Berkeley

Joint Genome Institute

Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Molecular Foundry (at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Sandia National Laboratories

Stanley Center for Bioscience & Engineering at University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

San Francisco

California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute

QB-3 (California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research–UCB–UCSC–UCSF) headquartered at UC San Francisco

University of California, San Francisco

Silicon Valley/South Bay

BIO-X at Stanford University

Carnegie Mellon University West

Electric Power Research Institute

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

NASA Ames Research Center

NASA Research Park

Naval Postgraduate School

SRI International

Stanford Genome Technology Center

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Stanford University

University of California, Santa Cruz

Leveraging Public and Private R&D Investment

The region has been the site of immense investment by federal and state governments in the development of advanced research facilities. That investment has been matched by a massive development of R&D facilities by the private sector.

The excellence of Bay Area research institutions is not only a primary attraction to private industry to locate in the region, it is also a key incentive for industry to commit major resources to their businesses here.