Costa Rica
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This chapter presents an overall assessment of Costa Rica’s innovation system and policy, reflecting the key findings of the review. It identifies strengths and weaknesses and key issues for innovation policy, and develops specific policy...
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Costa Rica’s successful economic performance and social achievements realised over the last decades are widely acknowledged. Gross domestic product per capita has steadily increased at higher rates than in most Latin American countries as Costa Rica...
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This chapter reviews Costa Rica’s aggregate innovation performance relative to OECD countries and Latin American countries with comparable or advanced levels of innovation system development, similar size and geographical proximity. The chapter...
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This chapter describes the main actors in the Costa Rican innovation system – business enterprises, higher education institutions and public research organisations – and highlights their respective roles in the development of innovation activities in...
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This chapter discusses Costa Rica’s social and economic performance and framework conditions for innovation. The first part presents macroeconomic developments and sketches salient features of the Costa Rican economy, patterns of structural change...
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The OECD Review of Innovation Policy in Costa Rica is part of a series of OECD country reviews of innovation policy.* It was requested by the Costa Rican authorities, and was carried out by the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation...
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This chapter examines public innovation policy and governance in Costa Rica. It begins with an overview of the historical evolution of science, technology and innovation policy in Costa Rica. It then examines the main policy actors and governance...
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This chapter reviews the framework, key policy objectives and institutional arrangements for agricultural policy in Costa Rica. It provides an overview of relevant policy developments since the 1980s, after which it describes domestic...
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This Review, undertaken in close co-operation with the Costa Rican Executive Secretariat for Agricultural Sector Planning (SEPSA) and other institutions of the Agricultural Public Sector (APS), assesses the performance of the agricultural sector in...
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This Review of Agricultural Policies: Costa Rica is one of a series of reviews of national agricultural policies undertaken by the OECD’s Committee for Agriculture. The Committee for Agriculture is one of the OECD technical committees mandated by the...
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The long-term productivity of Costa Rica’s agricultural sector is at serious risk from climate change. Increasingly severe floods and droughts, rising temperatures and heightened exposure to pests all threaten to compromise the sustainability of its...
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This chapter examines the key characteristics of the agricultural sector in Costa Rica. It includes a brief overview of the political, economic, social, and geographical factors that constitute the broad context for the development of the...
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Costa Rican agriculture has a strong base upon which to build. The success of the sector has been underpinned by the country’s political stability, robust economic growth and high levels of basic health and education service provision. The...
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