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VIATRIS, the sixth largest global healthcare company in the world, arrives to Costa Rica

Mar 4, 2021 9:20:00 AM / by cinde.org posted in Featured, Life Sciences, Press Releases, Corporate and Business Processes, Viatris, Pharma

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  • The initial investment in new offices and hiring, exceeds one million four hundred thousand dollars.
  • The company has more than 45 thousand employees worldwide, 112 of them in the region and 56 working from Costa Rica.

San José, Thursday, March 4, 2021. The global healthcare company Viatris, announced the start of operations in the country with an initial investment of $1,400,000. The company arrives in Costa Rica with commercial operations, such as the import and distribution of medicines in the region shortly after its creation in 2020, after the merger of the companies Mylan and Upjohn. 

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Biomaterials Thriving in Costa Rica: The case of Yellow Pallet

Mar 1, 2021 7:29:35 AM / by cinde.org posted in Featured, New Materials, Innovation, Media, Environmental awareness, Yellow Pallet

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Did you know that the world produces 5 billion industrial pallets annually, 95% of which are made of wood? In Siquirres, Costa Rica, there is a company that is leading a more sustainable solution based on banana byproduct usage.

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AWS Supports Cloud Growth in Costa Rica

Feb 25, 2021 12:00:00 PM / by cinde.org posted in Cloud, Press Releases, Critical Thinking, Digital Technologies, Customer Centricity, Super-featured, Big Data/ Analytics, Amazon Web Services

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  • With the opening of its first office in San José, AWS strengthens customer relationships and supports the expansion of cloud computing in Costa Rica.
  • AWS will invest in the local market by hiring highly trained engineers, network specialists, and account managers, among other roles.

San José, Costa Rica – February 25, 2021 –Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), a company of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the opening of its new San José, Costa Rica office, to support the rapid adoption of cloud computing within Costa Rica.
 
Local AWS representatives will work to support organizations of all sizes, from startups to some of the oldest and most established companies in the nation, including those in the public sector, as more Costa Rican companies transition to the AWS cloud. As part of this expansion, AWS also plans to hire highly skilled professionals in sales, marketing, and technical engineering roles; these positions will be based in Costa Rica.
 
The new location will pull together a local group of account executives, solution architects, partner managers, support personnel, and other functions, so that customers can engage directly with AWS – in their local environment, in their native language. This openness is further evidence of AWS’s global growth and the company's continued investment in helping organizations migrate their movements and activities to the cloud. If you would like more information on working with AWS in Costa Rica, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/en/
 
When AWS first launched in Central America, Costa Rican organizations were among the first to adopt its cloud services. Established customers in Costa Rica are now using AWS to run everything from development and test environments to Big Data analytics – from mobile, web and social applications to enterprise-level applications and mission-critical workloads. Among its local clients, AWS now serves some of the best-known and fastest-growing companies in Costa Rica, including Banco LAFISE, Fujitsu, and Snap Finance.
 
“For AWS, Costa Rica is a key market in Central America, where companies rely on AWS to innovate and use the cloud to accelerate time-to-market and expand their businesses to reach customers locally and around the world, especially during these pandemic times,” explained Marcos Grilanda, AWS Regional Director. “The decision to open an AWS office in San José speaks to growing customer demand, the broad pool of talent located here, and the investments we are making to support the adoption of the cloud in Costa Rica. We are very excited to work with more Costa Rican companies and to help them drive innovation within their organizations while maintaining the industry's high standards for reliability, privacy, and security."
 
Andrés Valenciano, Minister of Foreign Trade, continued: “News of Amazon Web Services’ new Costa Rican location offers further proof that Costa Rican human capital is talented, resilient, and trained in professional areas of high demand for industry 4.0. In addition, it demonstrates that our country offers an optimal business climate for foreign companies seeking locations that enable an increase in efficiency, to carry out successful, safe, and innovative productive operations. As a government, we are committed to strengthening our country’s competitive advantages, so that more companies like AWS will choose us as their corporate home base for exporting quality services to the world.”
 
Jorge Sequeira, Managing Director of CINDE, stated: “We are proud to welcome AWS to Costa Rica. With the help of our local talent, AWS will contribute significantly to Costa Rica’s considerable cloud computing sector, which accounts for 54% of all industry 4.0 services that Costa Rica provides to the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as to other Latin American and European countries. As of September 2020, our exports on value-added services had reached $3.7 billion.”
 
Similarly, some clients and colleagues that have worked together with AWS in Costa Rica on AWS cloud adoption programs, highlighted the importance of the company's in-country offices and asserted that they will be of great benefit to Costa Rican companies.
 
Rodrigo Zamora, Executive Director of Grupo LAFISE, stated: “Our relationship with AWS has allowed us to innovate in a more agile and efficient way, bringing us closer to our clients and helping us provide better customer experiences. In 2020, more than 50% of our new clients were captured through digital channels, thanks to our digital onboarding process.”
 
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Alex Sánchez, Global Head of Cross-GDC Networks of Fujitsu stated: “For several years, Fujitsu has partnered with AWS to offer Costa Rican companies a leading hyperscale platform to host critical systems and drive business innovation. With the arrival of AWS in Costa Rica, we are able to continue in our mission to help more companies migrate to the cloud.”

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Software Development Company Helm360 Settles into Pérez Zeledón

Feb 24, 2021 9:45:00 AM / by cinde.org posted in Featured, Press Releases, Corporate and Business Processes, Customer Centricity, Big Data/ Analytics, Helm 360

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  • U.S. firm created a total of 19 new jobs in 2020, with plans to create a minimum of 15 more jobs in 2021.
  • Company’s initial investment totals $2 Million.

Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica. February 24, 2021. Global technology and data analytics company Helm360 announced that it has chosen to set up operations in Costa Rica. The company formally launched its Costa Rican operations in 2020 and is expected to inaugurate its new support center in San Isidro de El General, in Pérez Zeledón, by the end of the year; this represents an initial investment of $2 million.

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Biomerics Announces Expansion of Costa Rica Operations

Feb 18, 2021 9:59:36 AM / by cinde.org posted in Featured, Life Sciences, Press Releases, Technology Design, Biomerics

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San José, Costa Rica. February 18, 2021. Biomerics, a leading mid-market medical device contract manufacturer, announced it is doubling its manufacturing footprint in the Zeta Free Trade Zone in Cartago, Costa Rica. Biomerics held a joint groundbreaking ceremony with Zeta and CINDE on Friday, February 12, 2021.

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Fujitsu Launches Virtual Job Fair to Fill 60 Positions

Feb 15, 2021 9:15:00 AM / by cinde.org posted in Featured, Lifelong Learning, Press Releases, Corporate and Business Processes, Customer Centricity, Fujitsu, UX/UI

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  • Interested applicants may participate via the company’s social networks. 
  • New available positions are for customer service agent openings. 

Monday, February 15, 2021. San José, Costa Rica. Between March and June 2021, Fujitsu will expand its Costa Rican operations with 60 new jobs.

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Why is Costa Rica One of the Best Democracies, According to The Economist Intelligence Unit?

Feb 8, 2021 3:18:07 PM / by cinde.org posted in Featured, Resilience, Diversity & Inclusion, News & Articles

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  • Costa Ricans are part of the 8.4% of the global population with the best democracies.

How has the pandemic affected democracy in 165 countries? The Economist Intelligence Unit posed this question in its 13th edition of the Democracy Index (2020). In Costa Rica, the answer was positive, being 2020 the year with the best score: 8.16 on a scale of 1 to 10.

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Wall Street Journal: “Costa Rica, a Wild Homeschooling Alternative”

Feb 2, 2021 2:08:38 PM / by cinde.org posted in Featured, Lifelong Learning, Soft Skills, Environmental awareness, News & Articles

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  • The Wall Street Journal points out to Costa Rica as an alternative for homeschooling surrounded by the country's exuberant nature. 
  • Costa Rica has been welcoming high-schoolers back for study abroad programs, tweaked for the Covid era. After Zoom classes, playtime ensues.

*Article originally published by The Wall Street Journal by Donna Bulseco: https://on.wsj.com/3oITywA 

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Costa Rica Proved to be a Dynamic Exports Platform Amidst the Pandemic

Jan 29, 2021 12:34:32 PM / by cinde.org posted in Featured, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Resilience, Digital Technologies, Corporate and Business Processes, News & Articles

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The COVID-19 pandemic created instability in different ways worldwide and exports was one of them. Even so, Costa Rica's exports of goods grew 1.9% in 2020 reaching a historic record of US $11,683 million: $214 million more than 2019. 

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CINDE Leads Program to Promote STEAM Areas in Female Students

Jan 26, 2021 9:15:00 AM / by cinde.org posted in Featured, Lifelong Learning, R&D, Press Releases, Boston Scientific, Digital Technologies, Corporate and Business Processes, Creativity, Diversity & Inclusion, Soft Skills, Environmental awareness, Edwards Lifesciences, Fiserv

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  • The Women in Engineering Projects in Community Service is led by CINDE with the Arizona State University, the United States Embassy in Costa Rica, and the Ministry of Education.
  • Seventy-eight students and eight teachers were part of the pilot plan in zones like Sixaola, Nicoya, Grecia, and Turrialba.

San José, Costa Rica. January 26, 2021. By 2030, the world will have a greater demand for knowledge skills such as creativity, critical thinking, decision-making, and complex data processing; this need will increase 19% in the United States and 14% in Europe, according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute.

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