Biotech / PharmaPuerto Rico

Amgen

Biotech / Pharma · Juncos, PR

Global biotech; flagship Puerto Rico (U.S.) plant in Juncos produces a large share of Amgen product.

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Puerto Rico

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Arboretum LifeSciences

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About Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico built one of the world's largest pharmaceutical and medical-device manufacturing bases starting in the 1970s, driven by tax incentives that have since changed — but the manufacturing know-how stayed after the incentives did, on an island most people don't think of as U.S. industrial territory at all. It's a genuinely overlooked American industry, not an offshore one.

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Region Stats

Total firms 41

VC / investors 1

Companies 37

Schools 3

Known For

Pharma

Medical Devices

Overlooked American Industry