The Economic Development Bank of Puerto Rico was created by Law #22 on July 24th, 1985 for the purpose of making available financial products and resources to small and medium-sized businesses that help create and maintain employment opportunities. The Bank’s goal is to further Puerto Rico’s economic development.

For more information on the Bank’s venture capital initiatives, please visit www.bdepr.com.

INDUNIV

INDUNIV, the Industry University Research Consortium, is a non-profit organization established by private industry in 1985. Its mission is to provide a forum where industry, academia and government can work together to promote the application of science and technology Puerto Rico’s pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries thus promoting the island’s competitiveness and economic development.

For more information, please visit www.induniv.org

INTECO

The Initiative Technological Eastern Center (INTECO for its Spanish language acronym) is a non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of Puerto Rico in order to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of the Central-Eastern region. INTECO started operations in September 2003 in order to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of the Central-Eastern region, the same, more than an initiative for regionalization based on the development of sciences and research, the development of enterprises and innovation, is an entire new manner to conceive and to make business, where the municipalities, academia and private enterprise joint to commercialize innovating technologies, to strengthen industry itself and to create new enterprises and to stimulate commercial activity.

For more information, please visit www.intecopr.org

INTENOR

The Northern Technological Initiative (INTENOR) is a nonprofit multisectorial initiative created to foster economic growth and development in Northern Puerto Rico. It creates an alliance among nine municipal governments, the local manufacturing and technology industry, SUAGM, and the central government. The town of Barceloneta already has invested more than US$13 million in infrastructure for Intenor. Among Intenor's achievements is the creation of technological innovation centers that give students training and technological education. It has fostered the creation of business incubators to ease the creation of new enterprises. It also has promoted the creation of a regional permits office to speed the process of setting up new companies.

For more information, please visit

CLUSTER IN THE WESTERN REGION OF THE PUERTO RICO

The Puerto Rico TechnoEconomic Corridor (PRTEC) is a conglomerate of public and private entities with common economic and social interests, united to facilitate and enable Puerto Rico’s economic development. It is where industry meets academia and government in the western part of Puerto Rico.

PRTEC is a non-profit organization committed to the development of a collaborative environment between private companies, government entities and academia. Continuous innovation, agility and collaboration are the core principles that guide PRTEC.

For more information, please visit www.prteconline.com