In 2013 43 foreign high technology companies invested in the country.
From a press release issued by the Costa Rican Coalition for Development Initiatives (CINDE):
Costa Rica ended 2013 with good news in the area of attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in high technology and light manufacturing. The country became host to 43 new investment projects which generated, along with the companies who set themselves up there, $583 million and 7,123 new jobs in the sectors of services, life sciences and advanced and light manufacturing.
With an investment of $4 million, the U.S. medical device supplier will open its first plant in Latin America and its fifth worldwide.
Navtar, a division of the corporation Tekni-Plex, Inc., is to locate the new plant in Zone Z in Cartago, the space will measure 1000 square meters, with the possibility of expanding its size to 3,700 square meters next year.