UC Davis’ prime location in the thriving corridor linking Sacramento, the state capital of California, and the San Francisco Bay Area, the world’s unrivaled innovation hub, opens up endless opportunities to established Fortune 500 firms, the global technology industry, new start-ups and a financial ecosystem of venture capital and international banking. You’ll benefit from quick access to both the capital, where progressive policy is rippling well beyond the world’s eighth-largest economy, and the Silicon Valley, the hotbed for high-tech, web pioneers and new venture funding. UC Davis research, expertise and entrepreneurship programs, combined with the region’s forces of innovation and finance, are powering a clean tech cluster poised to accelerate economic development well into the future.