Originally Posted by SonicFlyer

This is completely false.

Yes, UCF is becoming a major research university. A ton of tech and defense firms have offices in Orlando including Boeing, Lockheed, Siemens, etc. There is also NASA and SpaceX and ULA and everything that goes along with it. Orlando is one of the biggest tech towns in the US (lots of simulation and training stuff for the military too) but that fact gets overshadowed because of the theme parks. And medical research is quickly becoming a thing here too.