Irish Ict Cluster
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Ireland has one of the highest concentrations of information and communications technology (ICT) activity and employment in the OECD. This activity comprises both electronics hardware manufacturing, such as PCs, and software products and services, especially business application products and ‘localisation’. It has largely been driven by foreign direct investment (FDI), though recent evidence suggests that the indigenous software industry is now growing at a much faster rate than the multinational sector. It is also a major factor in high skill, high wage job creation since the early 1990s and comprises a key element of Ireland’s ‘national innovation system’. This paper identifies some potential areas for research on cluster development and innovation.
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