If It’s Eye Care Technology, This Must Be Orange County

THAT Orange County, Calif., has become a center of small companies developing devices for eye care is no coincidence.

Some of the companies were nurtured by a six-year-old private organization of more than two dozen top executives of corporations in the county. The organization, called Orange County Technology Network, or Octane, has so far created 27 companies, most in electronics and software technology, and biomedical devices, especially for eye care.