Hewlett Packard opens Research and Development center
San Jose. Hewlett Packard opened today in its first R&D for Latin America. At the center, 150 Costa Rican engineers will develop software that will enable HP to generate wireless networking solutions for customers worldwide.
Globally HP has six of these centers, but that of Costa Rica will focus exclusively on the design of wireless technology. The other five centers are in California, Singapore, Bangalore, Taiwan and Canada.
Felipe Ortega, center manager of HP’s R&D in the country this morning said that the Costa Rican human talent is what motivated this new investment of the multinational. The company entered Costa Rica six years ago and currently has 7,000 employees in the zone Ultra Park and the American zone.
Source: La Nacion
