Tech Coast
Tech Coast is the nickname given to the Southern California region extending
from Santa Barbara in the north to northern San Diego County in the south. Counties include Santa Barbara, Ventura,
Los Angeles, Orange, and
San Diego. The Tech Coast concept and name, created by Timothy Cooley in the mid-90s to define the region's industrial and
economic drivers, has been adopted to describe the region as it matured from an economy dominated by aerospace and defense to
that of a diversified, global, multi technology-based powerhouse.
The Tech Coast region encompasses the greatest concentration of research and development activity in the world emanating from
research universities such as UCLA, USC, Caltech,
Harvey Mudd College, UC
Irvine,
Some companies located in the Tech Coast include: Aerovironment, Amgen, Baxter, Bargain Network, Broadcom, Buy.com, CinemaNow, Citrix
Online/GoToMyPC, Commission Junction,
Conexant, Day Software, Digital Insight, Emulex,
E!_Online, FrontBridge, Gateway,
Inc., Gemstar-TV Guide, Idealab,
Ingram Micro, Internet Brands, Iomega, Ixia, JAMDAT Mobile, Jazz Semiconductor, LegalZoom, Linspire, LowerMyBills.com, Filenet, Medtronic
Diabetes, MovieLink, Move.com, MySpace, Power-One,
Proflowers.com, Pricegrabber, QLogic,
In addition, technology firms Google and Yahoo maintain a significant presence in the region, with Google having acquired local firms Applied Semantics, Picasa, Urchin Software Corporation, dMarc Broadcasting, and Neven Vision.
The Tech Coast also includes the largest port complex in the U.S., the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and one of the largest airports in the world, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
External links
- socalTECH.com - Tech Coast High Tech News and Information
- LARTA Institute - Tech Coast research and information
- Tech Coast Angels - Largest, most successful angel investor network in U.S.
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