High-Tech Institutions, Incubators, and Industries

Institutions

Pasadena is home to a wide range of institutions focusing on emerging technologies and design.  A partial list is included below: 

• Art Center College of Design
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
  • Office of Technology Transfer
  • Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
• Carnegie Institution for Science
  • Carnegie Observatories
• NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI)
• Huntington Memorial Hospital
• Pasadena City College

Incubators

Pasadena and the greater San Gabriel Valley host a variety of business incubators, ranging from those focused on development of clean technologies and software innovations to chemical wetlabs and general support for new entrepreneurs.

• CALSTART
• Idealab
• Los Angeles County Business Technology Center (BTC)
• Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative (PBC)
• Pasadena Enterprise Center

Industries

Primary high tech industries currently operating in Pasadena are:

Aerospace
Energy
Engineering
Imaging
Medical
Pharmaceuticals
Software
Telecommunications