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CCST 20th Anniversary Report
A Voice for the Future:
The First Two Decades of the California Council on Science and Technology

Release date: May, 2008


The twenty-year history of CCST's evolution and accomplishments has been outlined in a new report, "A Voice for the Future: The First Two Decades of the California Council on Science and Technology".

The report documents how the first Council meeting, held in 1989, drew considerable attention, with the San Jose Mercury News describing CCST as "a high-powered effort to preserve and expand the state's economic base by combining the resources of academia and industry." In the years since, CCST has risen to the challenge of its original vision, issuing important reports on transportation, energy research, science and mathematics education, nanotechnology, economic development, and many other topics. Today, CCST has become the premier state-level science and technology advisory organization and is a model looked to by other states nationwide.

The report is available for download as a PDF or can be read online in an HTML version (table of contents is below). Hard copies are available upon request from the Riverside office.

  • Preface

  • Creating a Stronger California

  • Formation and Early History

  • Advanced Science and Technology

  • Measures of Scientific Technological Strength

  • Economic Vitality

  • Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education

  • The Next Two Decades

  • Acknowledgements




  • "Building integrity and authority is something you can't do overnight."

    -Karl Pister
    CCST Board Chair, 1992-present


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