Irel eland’ and’s Technol chnology gy Cl Clus uster L Leo Clancy Cl 1 st October 2015 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83M-zYzZWEU 2
Mi Mission ssion IDA Ireland partners with multinational companies to win and develop foreign direct investment, providing jobs for the economic and social benefit of Ireland. Vi Vision sion IDA, for the benefit of the people of Ireland, will be , the best and most successful Investment Promotion and Development Agency in p g y the world. 3
Fastest Growing Economy in Europe g y p • Ireland will be the fastest growing economy in Europe for the 2 nd year in 2015. • Labour market has added almost 105,000 jobs since start 2012. • Unemployment falling for years, down to 9.7% in June from peak of 15.1% in 2012. • Public finances improving rapidly Gov’t debt fell 13 points to 110% of GDP in 2014. • While the employment situation is improving wage inflation remains subdued. The IMF is forecasting wage inflation of c.2% p.a. to forecasting wage inflation of c 2% p a to 2018. So urc e s: So urc e s: E E uro pe an Co mmissio n Winte r F uro pe an Co mmissio n Winte r F o re c ast CSO QNHS NT o re c ast CSO QNHS, NT MA MA, De pt. o f F inanc e 4
Re Record Ye Year fo for FDI FDI – 2014 was a re reco cord rd ye year fo for FDI FDI, number of investments up 20% to 197 investments up 20% to 197. – 13% increase in new new name name investors to 88 – Emplo Employment rose to record high 174,448 – Investments from leading global companies: Amaz Amazon, on, Bri Bristol Mye Myers Squibb, Squibb, Fid Fid li Fideli Fid lity ty, Li LinkedI Li k dI Li dIn, n, Sur S urvey Mon M M onkey k k ey, Ai Ai B b Ai Air Bnb, B b Pay PayPal, Ericsson, Ericsson, SAP SAP, Johnson Johnson & Johnson, Johnson, We West Pharmaceutic Pharmaceuticals als, Zendesk , ndesk, Adr , Adroll ll and New New Relic. lic. 5
Ireland’s FDI Landscape KEY KEY FDI FDI IM IMPACTS ON ON THE THE IR IRISH ISH ECO ECONOMY OMY €124.5bn €124.5bn of exports €2.8bn €2.8bn of corporation tax p €1.4bn €1.4bn expenditure on R&D 175,000 175,000 directly employed €22.4bn €22.4bn spend in the Irish economy comprising: €8.5bn payroll, p y , €2.5bn Irish materials, and €11.4bn Irish services. WO WORLD LE WORLD LE WO LEAD LEAD ADERS CHOOSE ADERS CHOOSE CHOOSE IR CHOOSE IR IRELA IRELA ELAND ELAND 9 of the top 10 US companies in ICT 9 of the top 10 global Software companies 9 of the top 10 companies in Pharmaceuticals 9 of the top 10 companies in Pharmaceuticals 9 of the Top 15 Internet Estates 17 of the top 25 Medical Device companies 3 of the top 5 Games companies More than 50% of the world’s leading Financial Services firms 6
Ta Talent ‐ Multilin ltilingual g ual Foreign languages spoken at home (no. persons) ( p ) • Multicultural and multilingual Multicultural and multilingual society: Polish 119,526 • 17% of the population is French 56,430 international i t ti l Lithuanian h 31,635 3 63 German 27,342 • Over half a million Irish residents Spanish 22,446 speak a foreign language fluently. Russian 21,640 Romanian 20,625 • Only English speaking country in the Italian 10,344 Eurozone. E Chinese 15,166 Arabic 11,834 • Ideal base from which to service Other Other 177 080 177,080 global markets. Total 514,068 Source: CSO Census 2011 Source: CSO Census 2011 16
To Top Interna ternational nal Ra Rati tings ngs fo for Ireland eland • 1 st in the World for efficiency of large corporations 1 • 1 st in the World for flexibility & adaptability of workforce 1 • 1 st in the World for investment incentives 1 • 1 in the World for investment incentives • 1 st in the World for availability of competent senior managers 1 • 1 st in the World for fostering a national culture that is open to foreign ideas 1 foreign ideas • 1 st in the World for inward investment by quality and value³ • 1 st in Western Europe for ‘Best to Invest’ 3 1.IMD Competitiveness Yearbook 2015 2.IBM Global Location Trends Report 2014 3.Global Best to Invest Report, Site Selection, May 2015 18
Technology & Innovation 19
Multinational Technology Landscape
Not just Dublin – Cork’s ICT Cluster (53 overseas companies & 11,341 jobs )
R&D – C R&D – Case Stu Studies ies Ireland has an excellent track record as a location for Research, Development & Innovation and over €1.4 billion was spent by multinational companies on R&D in Ireland in 2014 Ireland in 2014 Advanced Predictive Analytics Quark, the first Intel product Centre in Dublin with 140 data fully designed and developed scientists, developers and UX in Ireland was launched in specialists i li 2013 2013 Lead centre and product HQ in MasterCard opened a global the camera and vision systems innovation lab in Ireland in group, employing 700+ 2010, focused on NFC and biometrics Dublin Fujitsu is engaged in a series Global R&D Centre of Galway of collaborative research Excellence designing projects in healthcare and software solutions for big data enterprise customers Designed and developed EMC Research Europe in Cork Cork focuses on cloud world’s largest proprietary computing, big data and data platform of insurance placement data centre research These centres are staffed by flexible, skilled teams working closely with their global Th ff d b fl ibl kill d ki l l i h h i l b l business to deliver value 22
Recent Investments Recent Investments Announced additional Establishing 700 people 200 jobs over next three technology and banking years in product centre of excellence centre of excellence development & support Announced investment Announced Digital of over $5 billion at Innovation R&D hub in Leixlip site Limerick Establishing Global Investing € 850M in data Business Services hub in centre , adding to the Cork creating up to 500 4,000+ people in EMEA HQ jobs in Cork Expanding its Centre of Creating a Technology Innovation and Analytics Development Centre in to over 130 people Limerick Announced additional Establishing first Establishing first 100 jobs at EMEA software engineering Headquarters in Dublin hub outside US Establishing Fashion Expanding by 200 Insights technology & people at European HQ people at European HQ analytics hub in Dublin analytics hub in Dublin in Dublin with plans to hire 200 people
Mult ltin inatio ional Inno nnovation tion & IoT IoT Tes estb tbeds Com Compan any Lab Labs Te Test Beds Beds – I – Internet of of Th Thin ings (e (example le) – INFINITE (EMC & Vodafone) ‐ Intel Ignition IoT Lab I t l I iti I T L b INFINITE (EMC & V d f ) – Dublin City Council IoT Projects (IBM & Intel) ‐ Intel Research – Croke Park Smart Stadium (Intel, GAA & DCU) ‐ Accenture Analytics Innovation – Health Monitoring & Smart Assisted Living ‐ Aon Innovation & Analytics (Fujitsu) ‐ Mastercard Labs – CitySense Smart Bike Project (Vodafone) y j ( ) ‐ Citi R&D and Innovation Lab Citi R&D and Innovation Lab – Nimbus Mallow Town Test Bed ‐ IBM Research – Ireland Labs – Precision Dairy (Teagasc) ‐ Bell Labs Ireland – Smart Bay (IBM & Marine Inst.) S t B (IBM & M i I t ) ‐ Medtronic Innovation Centre ‐ Stryker Innovation Lab ‐ Dell Cloud Solutions ‐ Dell Europe IoT Lab ‐ Etc. 24
Wider Irish Wi Irish Innov nnovati tion on Landsc Landscape pe Wo World Cl Class ass Irish Irish Te Tech Accelera rators rs Ac Acade ademic ic Re Research Compan Com anies ies (e (example les) s) (Dubl ublin based) based) (centr (cen tres) – Movidius ‐ computer vision – Health XL – 14 Technology Centres ($100M+ valuation on recent – Scalefront including: round) round) Analytics – Launchbox – FeedHenry – mobile Cloud – DCU Ryan Academy applications (acquired by E ‐ learning Propelller Red Hat) (€65M) – NDRC LaunchPad – 12 Large Scale Science – Now Factory – analytics – Wayra Centres including: (acquired by IBM) Analytics – & others – Opennet Telecom ‐ €95M Internet of Things f h revenue, >700 people Intelligent Content 25
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