The Governor Gray Davis Institutes for Science & Innovation

At the beginning of the 21st century, the State of California formed four institutes called the Governor Gray Davis Institutes for Science and Innovation. All the institutes have the same mission: to build multidisciplinary research teams that address large-scale societal problems. In the last part of the 20th century, California created the high-tech and biotechnology innovations that formed the backbone of today's "New Economy." As we begin the 21st century, the state of California, the University of California, and hundreds of the state's leading-edge businesses have joined together in an unprecedented partnership to lay the foundation for the "next New Economy."

In addition to CITRIS, there is the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), dedicated to integrating our understanding of biological systems at all levels of complexity; the "CalIT2" California Institute for Telecom and Information Technology (CalIT2), which focuses its work in the context of telecommunications and information technology as related to the evolving Internet; and the "CNSI" California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), which focuses on new nanotechnology systems.

The new ideas and technologies developed by researchers at the institutes help expand our economy into new industries and markets--and bring the benefits of innovation more quickly into the lives of people everywhere. These institutes open the doors to new understanding, new applications, and new products through essential research in biomedicine, bioengineering, nanosystems, telecommunications, and information technology. They are critical to California’s economic growth and its competitiveness in the global marketplace.