The Molecular Sciences research center of the University of Puerto Rico has opened its laboratories to the island's industrial sector, hosting an Industry Day event in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association. Companies attending the event toured the center's specialized laboratories and saw first-hand the capabilities and scientific resources available to industry. The centerpiece of the outreach is a new digital tool. The Scientific Connection Portal (Portal de Conexión Científica) launched at the Industry Day event and is hosted on the Centro Molecular website. The portal lets any organization identify and get pricing for the center's available scientific services, with preliminary service estimates obtainable within minutes as of this week. The push follows the roadmap Centro Molecular's own business development director laid out earlier this month. Dr. Mario Jordi Maura authored the article "Puerto Rico puede convertirse en el próximo hub innovador de Las Américas," published in the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association's Industriales Magazine, arguing the island can become the next innovation hub of the Americas. Maura serves as business director of Centro Molecular, and the new portal operationalizes that thesis: any company with a scientific or technological need can now find and contract UPR lab capacity directly. For a university research center, the move marks a deliberate commercial posture - pricing published up front, intake handled online, and the Manufacturers Association as the channel to the island's manufacturing base. If corporate demand follows, Puerto Rico's academic lab infrastructure becomes part of the island's industrial offer rather than a separate academic world.