Las TIC y las Mipymes costarricenses: Situación actual, retos y oportunidades. (ICTs and Costa Rica SMEs: current status, challenges and opportunities)

Las tecnologias de informacion y comunicacion (TICs) han tenido un fuerte impacto en el desarrollo economico y social de los paises. Costa Rica no se abstrae de esta realidad y muchos menos las micro, pequenas y medianas empresas (Mipymes) por lo cual la Segunda Encuesta Nacional de Mipymes 2011 incursiona en temas de interes que relacionan el uso y aprovechamiento de las TIC. Este articulo resume los hallazgos mas relevantes en las siguientes areas: Internet, comercio electronico, Internet en celulares y redes sociales.ABSTRACTSMEfinancing was one of the areas investigated in the Second National Survey ofmicro, small and medium sized Costa Rican companies during 2011. The most usedfinancing sources, credit applications during the last five years, end use ofthis credit, and current credit requirements in various financing institutionswere investigated. Similar to other countries, own funding was the main optionfor these companies. Thus, this work examines the conditions that facilitatethe use of self financing or other options available. Through statisticanalysis of the information collected, variables like initial funding source,previous experience of the entrepreneur and priority given to financialmanagement were shown to present a definite relationship to financingstrategies for Costa Rican SMEs.