Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica

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Case

Reference no. 9-703-422

Subject category: Strategy and General Management

Authors: Michael E Porter (Harvard Business School); Niels W Ketelhohn (Harvard Business School)

Published by: Harvard Business Publishing

Originally published in: 2002

Version: 10 September 2013

Revision date: 4-Oct-2013

Length: 22 pages

Data source: Field research

Topics: Business & government relations; Disruptive innovation; Information technology; Economic development; Foreign investment; Economics; Costs of bankruptcy; Employee privacy; IT asset disposal; Clusters; Revenue growth; Execution; Community development; Incubators

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Abstract

Describes the actions of Costa Rica President Figueres and his cabinet in attracting an Intel assembly and testing plant to their country. The effort was part of a government strategy that sought to develop further the Costa Rican electronics and information technology cluster.

Location:

Costa Rica

Industries:

Information technology consulting services; Electronic components

Other setting(s):

1996