The Tico Times, an award-winning weekly that was the first English-language newspaper in Central America has published an interesting piece on technology transfer in Costa Rica’s Central Valley.
Costa Rica's Silicon Valley, this region is already home to some of the world’s leading companies in computer and biomedical technology. Its dominant export is Intel’s microchip and it boasts an array of other multinational companies such as Cisco Systems.
As part of a forum meant to push the country further ahead in research and development, Stanford University’s Ximena Ares made a presentation last week at the University of Costa Rica on technology transfer – or the process of getting ideas off paper and into practice.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Costa Rica: ripe for technology transfer? | http://www.thenextsiliconvalley.com
