Costa Rica, despite its rice-industry failure, has also had some success with such policies. When the medical-device industry was blocked from producing lucrative products like heart valves, owing to the lack of specialized firms to provide sterilization services, the government used incentives to attract such companies.
而哥斯达黎加尽管在稻米产业上折戟，却也有一些政策取得了类似的成功。由于缺乏专门的公司提供消毒服务，医疗器械行业被禁止生产心脏瓣膜等高利润产品，于是政府用奖励政策来吸引这类企业。因此，更复杂且附加值更高的医疗设备出口量猛增。