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The creative economy leverages a wild mind, and a disciplined eye, which combines with the right technology and culture for innovation to enhance real-life experiences. These drive solutions that enable people to share, collaborate, and enjoy ever-more-so personalized experiences. Costa Rica undoubtedly offers a stimulating business ecosystem with a sensitivity for our environment, which provides the encouragement that creative industries need to thrive.
In a country with a highly educated population and ever more sophisticated buyers, animation, gaming, design, digital marketing, UX and UI, architecture, engineering, and related areas in this sector are finding fertile ground. Put together, these creative sectors and capabilities paint a picture of a community, that aims to bring brighter outcomes for its customers to life.
Costa Rica's gaming industry has emerged as a vibrant force in the global gaming landscape, thanks to its focus on innovation, VR gaming technology integration, and supportive infrastructure.
Costa Rica is playful by nature. The gaming industry offers a variety of original IP for both the commercial and advertising markets. Our games and video games include action, adventure, and puzzle titles for kids, teens, and adults. In addition, animation offers 2D and 3D capabilities through cutting-edge tech, VFX, conceptualization, post-production, and production services that add up to a unique gameplay experience across multiple devices and environments.
Digital marketing’s big opportunity is here. CEOs are turning to marketing to drive their company’s growth agenda. Delivering on this premise requires a whole new way of operating. To deliver on growth, modern marketing requires updated capabilities and enablers. In Costa Rica, several companies active in this field deliver digital production, brand and marketing strategy, online marketing and social media intelligence and reporting, 3D animation, e-commerce, web design, development and production, postproduction services, just to mention some examples. Integrating technologies such as VR/AR, AI, UX and UI.
The engineering and design industry is at the cusp of a new era, with technology creating new applications and tools that are changing how companies design, plan, and execute projects. Use of Agile frameworks, DevOps, simulating software such as BIM, digital twin technologies, 3D graphic design and analytics capabilities, organizations are eliminating many of the problems that have dogged the sector for decades. Such improvements could not come at a better time, since they are becoming increasingly complex, putting managers under greater pressure to improve costs, timelines, and efficiency.
Increasing demographics, better access to ICTs and dynamic shifts to new lifestyles associated with creative goods and services, makes creative industries a promising avenue for future growth.
EXPLORE MORE CAPABILITIESAccenture believes in new ways of working and putting human creativity as a priority. By investing in automation so that their people can focus in strategic work, they are reimagining the nature of work, pivoting the workforce to create new forms of value and scaling up “new skilling".
Prodigious, as part of Publicis Group, provides digital production and development services from Costa Rica, ranging from creative engineering to complex business digital solutions. These include motion design, test and target, User Experience, User Interface, digital asset preparation, Back-End Development, Quality Assurance and multichannel analytics implementation.
Alienware, a division of Dell, deploys highly specialized levels of tech support through social media interactions with live gaming players. This support serves as preventive reputation management as well as to ensure an uninterrupted experience for hardcore gamers.
Lionbridge Costa Rica relies on strong analytical skills to drive insights based on its capabilities for Google Adwords and Double Click (Certified Partners), Google Analytics (Certified Partners), Facebook Insights SB (Certified Partners), research and industry benchmark analysis.
Accenture believes in inclusive workforce and women in technology. In the Costa Rican hub, the company puts the human skills at the heart of our competitiveness and growth in the age of intelligent technology, through a comprehensive approach that creates a more productive and adaptive workforce.
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