San Diego
An Economy Built Upon Innovation and Entrepreneurism
Did you know? Cali Baja, with access to major railway and interstate corridors, is serviced by three international airports, two major seaports of entry, and three land ports for goods movement.
Cali Baja's San Diego region is an innovation hub with high-wage, high-growth clusters within the life sciences, clean technology, and software development industries. Companies like Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Aptera Motors, Biogen Idec, Gen-Probe, Intuit, Johnson & Johnson, Kyocera Solar, Life Technologies, Motorola, Pfizer, Synthetic Genomics and QUALCOMM are located within the region.
Local universities and research institutions such as University of California, San Diego, and Scripps Research Institute have spun off nearly 200 biotech firms, and the region's biotech cluster employs an estimated 40,000 people with a $9.2 billion annual impact on the local economy. In 2009 San Diego companies and research institutions received more than $1.2 billion in research funding from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.