Opportunities for Costa Rican cooperative agribusiness

Abstract

An action research has been carried out through a planned social spin-off model with the aim of creating start-ups, and in order to generate social innovation for the University. This value created in society through the cooperative sector produces direct and indirect jobs. The advisory and auditing accompaniments to cooperatives, through students, have provided many improvements in management problems and good practices to optimize their productive processes.
Each accompaniment has a cost between $ 100,000 and $ 150,000 and there are more than 26 professionals executing this work, managing to impact approximately 245 associates and their families. With this, inefficiencies are eliminated, fair prices are achieved and, over time, a very accelerated learning curve will be generated that helps cooperative members and the region.