Setting out to attract investments in electronics and software , Costa Rica landed such high-tech investors asReliability , Protek , Colorplast , and Sensortronics. By far , the largest investor was the computer –chip giant intel. CINED officials worked to attract intel. They drew up a list of all the questions and concerns corporate leaders in meeting with intelexecutives , even enlisting the country’s president , Jose Figuers , to pilot them on a helicopter survey of plant sites.