InGen

International Genetics Incorporated, or InGen, was a bioengineering company founded by John Hammond in the 1970s. It originally handled normal genetic engineering, such as making miniature elephants, but moved on to something much grander. Sometime in the 1980s, Hammond began construction on an amphitheatre in San Diego, but it was abandoned. By 1989, a theme park on Isla Nublar, 79 miles off of Costa Rica, was nearing completion, and another park, Jurassic Park: Europe, was beginning construction on an island in the Azores. However, interference from one of InGen's rivals, BioSyn, caused a shutdown of all of the park's systems, and the dinosaurs ran free. The park was abandoned, and work in the Azores ceased.