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Birthplace of Biotech
The Bay Area is the birthplace of biotech and a globally elite life science ecosystem that generated $142.7B in total economic output and supported over 328,000 jobs in 2023. The region is home to world class universities, a top-tier workforce, many of the world’s largest life science companies and a vast array of startups working on medical breakthroughs to address unmet medical needs.
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2023 Economic Impact of Life Sciences in the Bay Area
$
142.7
B
Economic Impact
3.7
K
Life Science Establishments
156
K
Direct Jobs
$
49.1
B
Labor Income
$
2.3
B
NIH Research Funding
Economic Impact Report
The Bay Area region comprising nine counties—Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma—together employed 156,454 life science workers in 2023, which represented seven percent growth on the previous year. The region’s highly educated workforce, reinforced by close proximity to research institutions such as UC San Francisco, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, continues to position the region as one of the most elite and active life science clusters in the world.
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Member benefits apply to all life science companies with a presence in California including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, genomics, synthetic biology, food and agriculture tech, and diagnostic companies. We also support Contract Research Organizations, Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations, research universities and institutes, investors, and service providers.
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