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Why Ireland for technology investment

  • See why the world’s leading names in technology choose Ireland as a strategic base of operations

  • Scale rapidly with easy access to talent and skills that evolve to meet industry needs

Source the skills you need to make your investment in Ireland a success

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Source the skills you need to make your investment in Ireland a success

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Chosen by Leaders

Globally recognised names including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Tencent and many more have chosen Ireland for major European operations. Ireland is home to:

  • 16 of the top 20 global tech companies and the top 3 enterprise software providers
  • 106,000+ people are employed in the ICT industry.
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Proven to Deliver

By setting up in Ireland, you’ll become part of the global hub of choice for strategic activities of world-leading tech companies, including software development, shared services, advanced manufacturing, cloud services, EMEA inside sales and hardware and software R&D.

  • 70+ years record in attracting and retaining top-tier foreign direct investment
  • 50% of tech companies have been here for 10+ years; 33% for over two decades
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A Thriving Talent Pipeline

Ireland has one of the strongest talent pipelines for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in Europe. Our technology sector benefits from high levels of Government support for, and investment in, skills programmes.

  • Third-level STEM graduates highest in Europe per 1,000 of population
  • High level of software developers in EU per one million inhabitants
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Ready for the Future

Technology never stands still; neither do we. Ireland is constantly developing educational programmes and skills initiatives to further increase the talent pool across the entire spectrum of tech roles for new and emerging areas.

  • 40+ companies in Ireland using or developing AI technologies
  • Education in blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, analytics, software engineering and more
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Rewarding Innovation

Publicly funded Irish research centres support and complement corporations’ own R&D activities taking place in Ireland. Ireland’s Knowledge Box, or patent box, meets the OECD standard.

  • Highly competitive financial incentives for investors carrying out R&D in Ireland
  • Active industry clusters support collaboration between corporations and researchers

We have tonnes of amazing customers, we continue to innovate so Salesforce is going to be in Ireland for a very long time.

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Success Stories: Hear from leaders calling Ireland home

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MeiraGTx
Boulder Media
State Street
Pfizer
Supermetrics
Regeneron
Gene therapy startup chooses Ireland for commercial-scale manufacturing

Gene therapy startup chooses Ireland for commercial-scale manufacturing

MeiraGTx’s Shannon facility is unique, not only in Ireland but globally, as it streamlines gene therapy development, testing and manufacturing capabilities together in-house. This significantly reduces the time to patients for advanced therapeutic products, with months or potentially years saved.” -

Boulder Media is one of the largest animation studios Ireland

Boulder Media is one of the largest animation studios Ireland

Remaining successful in the thriving global animation industry is largely down to attracting and retaining high quality talent, making the studio the best place to produce a project. Partnering this talent with high quality projects allows Boulder Media to create the best content, entertaining audiences all over the world on a daily basis.

Continued expansion at four Irish sites over 20+ years

Continued expansion at four Irish sites over 20+ years

Ireland’s tech ecosystem and financial services credentials alongside Kilkenny’s central location and access to talent from third level institutions in Dublin, Carlow, Waterford and beyond were all compelling factors in our location decision
Leading global player has invested $9 bn+ in Irish operations

Leading global player has invested $9 bn+ in Irish operations

Pharmaceutical manufacturing in Ireland continues to perform very well contributing strongly to exports and economic growth and provides excellent career opportunities.

Ireland’s attractiveness helped by how it brings people from across Europe to work

Ireland’s attractiveness helped by how it brings people from across Europe to work

Dublin is ideal for the rich pool of talent, with significant technology literacy: people who have extensive experience either selling similar solutions, or – equally importantly – selling to similar types of customers. That really accelerates our ability to identify and hire the talent, bring them into the business and get them to a point of productivity very, very quickly. You don’t get that in other places.
Biologics leader scales rapidly across two strategic sites in Ireland

Biologics leader scales rapidly across two strategic sites in Ireland

In order to make space in our New York facilities to accommodate our COVID-19 efforts, we needed to ramp-up capacity here in Limerick. Despite ramping up commercial production sooner than planned, my team hasn’t missed a beat. You can only perform like this if you have good people, and Ireland has lots of good people, so we are excited to be hiring 400 more.

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