In the new global scenario, companies have changed their strategies and started to delocalise more knowledge-intensive and smart manufacturing activities, including design and research and development (R&D), relying on Costa Rica’s capabilities to drive change and be future-ready for their next wave of solutions.
Along with rapidly evolving technologies, consumer preferences are rapidly changing, demanding faster product cycles, in a scenario of globalized operations and markets. Yes, R&D departments are under unprecedented strain. Costa Rica has proven to be the right partner for driving R&D, combining its high-skilled technical talent with its customer-centric culture. It is an innovation focus not just for the sole purpose of something new, but something relevant.
Pfizer’s Institute for Science and Research in Costa Rica is dedicated to medical education and research on pharma-economy, good clinical practices, scientific research, biological and biosimilar medications among others. They are actively involved in trails with USA’s Cancer Institute on Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
Starbucks fosters its Global Agronomy R&D Center in the beautiful slopes of Costa Rica’s Poas Volcano since 2014 where they do coffee genetics research, developing over 300 varieties based on coffee quality, productivity and leaf rust tolerance and/or resistance. Their open-source R&D model has led them to release at least 17 of these varieties to local farmers free of charge, in order to shift coffee production to be as environmentally responsible as possible. When the world’s best coffee company and coffee country come together, great things brew.
Inspired by the notion of longevity Chanel’s R&D team studied Costa Rica’s Blue Zone focused on finding possible substances or organisms for health or industrial uses, among others. They found 70x more active antioxidant molecules in green coffee beans from this region as compared to others. In 2016, it became the first company to have been approved for bio-commercialization.
HP Enterprise Costa Rica hosts the company’s first R&D Center out of the US since 2009. This unit called Intelligent Edge, is directed towards client-centered solutions for new networking products, design of embedded software for wireless equipment and data centers. Costa Rica also became the first ITO hub for the Corporation in the Americas in 2011.
Dole’s R&D lab in Costa Rica experiments in the areas of crop physiology, banana breeding, biocontrol, micropropagation and fruit quality to ensure the company’s exports meet the best standards.
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Costa Rica has the ideal conditions and human capital needed for getting the most out of the current technological convergence taking place in multiple sectors across industries, generating major investment opportunities here.
EXPLORE MORE CAPABILITIESSperatum, as a biotech company, is dedicated to R&D of targeted molecular therapies for the treatment of pancreatic cancer as well as COVID-19 solutions. By using miRNAs proprietary technology, as opposed to traditional cancer therapies, it targets hundreds of different factors involved in cancer all at once.
EARTH University in collaboration with Israeli company Netafim are building a new automated irrigation station as par of an agri-tech project which seeks to assess crop adaptability to new regions and water resource efficiency.
The research carried out by CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza) takes a systemic approach to address Latin America and the Caribbean's most pressing issues in rural areas. Specialized lines of research include the design and implementation of investigation projects using systemic approaches that contribute integrally to achieving sustainable and inclusive human welfare.
Among all the different areas in our operations, one to highlight is the Research and Development Unit, located in Heredia. It was launched in 2014 and has grown to more than 140 people working in areas such as Neuromodulation, Interventional Cardiology, Peripheral Intervention and Electrophysiology. We have found an incredible source of technical and professional talent, both from our internal manufacturing operations and from the external labor market, to respond to the corporate needs in terms of ability to analyze, create and develop innovative solutions for current and potential products.
Intel and Costa Rica have evolved hand in hand in these two decades. The country is a strategic location for our services operations, and moreover, a location for additional valuable activities, such as research, design and development. We are an important part of the value chains, we actively contribute to a work process that complements the operations carried out in other parts of the world.
Costa Rica’s human talent has become a key element for HPE’s strategy. From here, we work in developing new products and services, allowing the company to advance one foot ahead in the sector.
We want to be part of a significant impact on the agricultural community and be part of the transformation process that the sector requires at the national and global level. We have established cooperation agreements with universities and diverse institutions that will generate a lot of value in the country’s agriculture, energy, and technology. We seek to innovate in production, marketing, and research of hybrid seeds of high genetic value and, especially, be part of that important change that the world requires.
