Costa Rica, adaptability
Ramp Up, PROCOMER's export-readiness programme
Costa Rica's export agency PROCOMER reported that 40 SMEs graduated from its 16-week Ramp Up 2024 programme, delivered with INA and the Sistema de Banca para el Desarrollo, bringing the number of firms benefiting since the programme began in 2021 to 175.
40 SMEs, smes graduating from ramp up 2024, 2025-02-26. 175 SMEs, smes benefiting since launch, 2025-02-26. PROCOMER, Ramp Up 2024 export-capability programme, retrieved 2026-08-31.
The move, and what it needed
PROCOMER, the national training institute and a development bank combine practical training in finance, strategy, governance and sustainability with export-market connections. The package builds the organisational routines and compliance readiness that small firms need before an overseas buyer or distributor can become repeat business.
Preconditions
- An export agency that can identify firms, broker market access and coordinate services rather than offering disconnected workshops
- SMEs with a product, management time and enough operational capacity to act on finance, quality and sustainability work
- Training, development finance and buyer or standards networks that remain available after graduation
Where it travelled: Export-readiness programmes travel when capability-building is tied to real market links and finance; a course certificate without buyer validation, working capital or standards support rarely diversifies exports by itself.
Limits: Graduation and reach counts show programme delivery, not verified export growth, new markets, product diversification, export survival or causal impact. PROCOMER describes the firms as strengthening export capability; the source does not establish that all graduates exported or that the programme changed Costa Rica's aggregate concentration.
This record describes what Costa Rica delivered. It is linked to Export diversification because no comparable dataset measures that capability. It does not affect the score or confidence.
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