“Ireland continues to lead the world for attracting high-value investment,” stated IBM’s Global Location Trends report in 2018, “generating substantial inward investment with strengths in key high-value sectors such as ICT, financial and business services and life sciences.
According to a recent study by FDI, (European Cities and Regions of the Future 2018/19 rankings), “Dublin boasts the highest level of FDI on a per capita basis of all locations… The city has established a reputation as a software and IT hub, with major investments in recent years from US software giants including Facebook and Google. In the five-year period analysed, almost half of all investments in the city were tech-based.”