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Ireland - The New Tech Capital of Europe
The London Irish Business Society in association with PWC presents:
30th January 2013 - PWC, More London
Speakers:Richard Hendron, IDA Ireland
Fintan Costello, GoogleConnor Murphy, Datahug
Live DemonstrationsEoghan O’Sullivan, VonBismark
Harry Santa-Olalla & Jon Douglas, iBid
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Connor MurphyDatahug
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Fintan Costello
Fintan Costello
Feel Free to Connect:
• twitter.com/fintancostello
• fintancostello.com
• uk.linkedin.com/in/fintancostello/
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Richard Hendron,IDA Ireland
Docklands - Technology Occupiers
The Epicentre of Ireland ‘the New Tech Capital of Europe’
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Key International Games Companies in Ireland
Sample of Irish Games Companies
Irish Animation Companies
- Ireland as a platform for European companies developing International markets for products and
services:e.g. Gilt Groupe
SmartboxShire
Covidien
- Emerging growth companies e.g. Diaceutics
New IDA Business Models
Unit Wage Costs % Change 2009 - 2013
Source: EU Commission 2011
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-15%
-10%
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20%
25%
Ireland’s competitiveness improving:
• Factory/office rental costs are down by 50%+ on 2007
• Cost of hiring new personnel in the ICT sector generally lower by up to 20% on 2008, with costs for individual positions lower by up to:
20-25% for management (senior, R&D, etc.) 15% for sales (inside sales/account managers, etc.) (30%-35%
OTE’s) 20%-25% for technical support, customer support, localization and
testing
Clients Providing High Volume Information and Data Management from Ireland
TOP ONLINE BRANDS
SOCIAL NETWORKS
DIGITAL GAMES
B2B ECOMMERCE
MOBILE / TELCO
WEB SECURITY
SaaS Software
Data Hosting & Data Centres (Dublin)
Ireland: R&D in Digital Technologies Investment in Research & Development
An unprecedented £ 9 billion committed to the Government’s Strategy for Science, Technology & Innovation
Funding is building a world class research infrastructure
Tax & Grant Incentives Relief of up to 37.5% on eligible R&D expenditure – 25% tax credit plus 12.5% tax deduction
IDA/EI R&D Grant Assistance towards standalone and/or collaborative research
DERI - International web science research institute for Symantic web research: www.deri.org
CLARITY – Interactive Media, Information Discovery, Content Management/Retrieval/Indexing: http://www.clarity-centre.org/ ,
CNGL – Centre for next generation localisation technologies, focussed on addressing challenges of volume, access and personalisation: http://www.cngl.ie
LERO – Software Engineering research centre focussing on practice, processes, methods, global software development: http://www.lero.ie
CLIQUE – Network analysis of social networks: http://cliquecluster.org
GV2 - Perception and graphics, Real-time rendering and animation, Crowd simulation, Image/Video and Audio Processing & Analysis, Custom and multi-core hardware architectures: GV2 http://gv2.cs.tcd.ie/
SIGMEDIA - Digital Image Sequence Processing, Motion Estimation, Content Based Image Retrieval and Motion Picture Restoration http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~sigmedia/
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTRES
Docklands - Technology Occupiers
The Epicentre of Ireland ‘the New Tech Capital of Europe’
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Richard Hendron, IDA Ireland, 07545 702201, [email protected] Esson, Enterprise Ireland, 07795 155511, [email protected]
LIBS presents: Ireland – The New Tech Capital of Europe
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