Macroeconomic trends and framework conditions for innovation in Costa Rica

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 and productivity-related developments. The second part looks at the current state of framework conditions as they relate to entrepreneurship and innovation. The final sections deal with intellectual property rights and infrastructure, which are important to enterprise and innovation systems in a variety of ways.