Biotech / PharmaPuerto Rico

Eli Lilly

Biotech / Pharma · Carolina, PR

Global pharma; major Puerto Rico (U.S.) manufacturing — insulin/biologics (Carolina) and Mayaguez.

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Puerto Rico

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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.

Region Stats

Total firms 23

VC / investors 0

Companies 23

Universities 0

Known For

Pharma

Medical Devices

Overlooked American Industry