Sunday, November 09, 2025

Ireland has 10 R&D homegrown companies and 27 foreign domiciled firms — 3

R&D — Research and Development in a country

The top global R&D spenders, 2023


The United States and China dominate global R&D spending. The United States leads global R&D spending with nearly USD 784 billion in 2023, closely followed by China at USD 723 billion [China is outpacing all countries in recent spending]. The European Union collectively invested about EUR 381 – 389 billion, equivalent to roughly USD 420 billion, making it the world’s third-largest R&D spender after the U.S. and China — The top global R&D spenders, 2023.

Saturday, November 01, 2025

Irish firm software developers were at O.5% in 2024 while the total was 8.4% — 2

Permanent, full-time employment in the industry and services sectors: Software Developers or  Computer Programming, in 2025, is related to the Annual Employment Survey 2024.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT): The total number of people in Ireland in 2024, working in the ICT sector, was 136,686, 109,031 in foreign-owned firms and 27,655 in Irish companies.

Software Developers / Computer Programming in total had 42,384 people in the year.

Irish-owned firms in 2024 had a total number of people of 2,528 in programming.

Foreign-owned companies that are mainly American and have facilities in Ireland had a total headcount of 39,836.

Total permanent, full-time employment in Government agency-assisted companies operating in all sectors amounted to 504,831 in 2024.   

 Among foreign-owned companies, total permanent, full-time employment reached 299,059 in 2024, representing a 2,237-job increase (0.8%) over the previous year and the highest employment level recorded during 10 years.

Total permanent, full-time employment among Irish-owned companies amounted to 205,772 in 2024.

The total of  505,000!

This is a denominator.

The total result is  8.4% ICT Employment

The 2,528 Irish result is 0.51 ICT Employment