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UC and
the Economy
Supporting
Industry Clusters
Training
California’s
Workforce
UC
Impacts
on Technology
Growing
California’s
Agriculture
Campus
Economic
Impacts
UC-Industry
Partnerships
California
Institutes
for Science and
Innovation
Technology
Transfer
Energy
and
Transportation
Engineering
and
Computer Science
Business
Schools
UC
Employment
Opportunities
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Supporting Industry Clusters |
California’s economy is now the fifth largest
in the world, with a 2002 Gross State Product of $1.3 trillion –
one-eight of the total U.S. economic output. Although California’s
economy is diverse, it is driven by knowledge-intensive industries
– many of which were invented by UC innovations or grown by
UC faculty and alumni.
The growth of the region where an industry takes
root and flourishes requires a synergy between technological innovations,
skilled workers and companies. A key link between UC research, UC
workforce development and California’s economy, industry “clusters”
are the drivers of regional and state economic growth.
Six industry clusters in particular are critical
to the current performance and future vigor of California’s
economy – biosciences (pharmaceutical firms, medial laboratory
research and biomedical instrument manufacturing), computers and
semiconductors, information technology, telecommunications (communication
services and equipment manufacturing), aerospace, and agriculture.
Excluding agriculture,
the five urban-based industry clusters employ more than 1.4 million
Californians. And while only a small percentage of California’s
total employment, these industries form California’s export
base and contribute disproportionately to the state’s economic
growth.
A leading state in the biosciences, California
is home to several of the most dynamic bioscience regions in the
country – metropolitan San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area and
Greater Los Angeles. In 2001, the bioscience cluster employed some
217,000 Californians. Similarly, nearly a quarter of a million Californians
were employed in the computer and semiconductor cluster. Aerospace
employs close to 80,000 people in the Los Angeles region, a regional
proportion that is more than two times the national average. In
addition to employment growth, labor productivity, in telecommunications
and aerospace for example, has also sustained California’
competitive advantage in these clusters.
UC’s workforce contribution to these key
clusters is significant: UC will produce more than 3,000 undergraduates
who will enter cluster-related fields in California in 2002. Through
2011, this contribution is estimated to total more than 34,000 undergraduates
in science and engineering jobs. The impact of UC graduates in these
industry clusters is estimated at $887
million in Gross Regional Product for 2002 and $7.4 billion between
2002-11. State and local government revenues resulting from UC undergraduates
entering the workforce is estimated at $2 billion through 2011.
UC’s
Regional Cluster Programs
UC-Industry
Partnerships
California
Institutes for Science and Innovation
Technology Transfer
Growing California’s
Agriculture
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