Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. issued an official proclamation declaring the month of May as ‘California Small Business Month.’ “This month, we reaffirm our commitment to helping California’s small businesses thrive and prosper,” said Governor Brown. “The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, along with key agencies of state government, works to facilitate economic growth through collaboration with small businesses. Supporting small-scale private- sector job creators is among our most promising strategies to enhance California’s human capital, expand job opportunities and increase our competitive advantage in the global marketplace.” ...Read More

It’s back to business as usual for Governor Jerry Brown, after leading a delegation of Californians to China. Their mission was to promote California as the place to do business and the place to invest.

The Governor’s “go to guy” sums it up, simply. “I think the trip was a home run,” said Kish Rajan, Director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. Rajan believes the trip can be successfully measured in three ways.

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SHANGHAI CHINA - Director of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), Kish Rajan, signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Mr. Cao Zhengquan, Executive Director of the Administration Committee of Zangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone. The MOU is to build a strategic collaboration between Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park and GO-Biz to promote the development of the high technology industry and propel the healthy development of high-tech industries both in China and California. Director Rajan was joined by California business leaders including Janet Lamkin - Chair of the Bay Area Council; Dan Richard - Chair of the CA High Speed Rail; Allen Zaremberg, President of the California Chamber of Commerce, and Clint Reilly, Chairman & President of Clinton Reilly Holdings. Details of the MOU are available here. ...Read More

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will travel to The People’s Republic of China next week to meet with Chinese government and business leaders, highlight bi-lateral trade and investment opportunities between the two regions and open a new California foreign trade and investment office. The trade mission will include events in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen from Wednesday, April 10^th through Tuesday, April 16^th. The Governor will be joined by a delegation organized by the Bay Area Council that includes approximately 75 business, economic development, investment and policy leaders from throughout California. “California’s exports are booming and our place in the world economy has never been stronger. Our ties with The People’s Republic of China in particular are deep—from the Chinese immigrants crossing the Pacific in 1848 to hosting China’s next President in Los Angeles last February,” said Governor Brown in his State of the State Address in January." ...Read More

"Manufacturing is cool. It's not smokestacks anymore," said Adam Hansel, president of DTL. At a recent meeting-of-minds, Hansel held up his iPhone to boast about how his company's machines helped build the latest Apple smartphone. The place was the Advanced Manufacturing Summit hosted last week in Sacramento by the governor's economic development office, GO-Biz, and the point was to get everyone on the same page about pumping up California's advanced manufacturing sector. The forum was prompted by a White House competition to create advanced manufacturing centers around the country and drop on them the funding that goes along with winning one in your state, almost $70 million. "California raised its hand and said 'We're going to take the lead,'" said Kish Rajan, director of GO-Biz, AKA the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. "We're going to be in the pole position." ...Read More