We must fix university funding if we want FDI to keep rolling in
IDA Ireland might be feeling a little bit "damned if they do, and damned if they don't" when it comes to the kinds of foreign direct investment projects the agency goes after. An agency report compiled by the OECD rightly highlighted the success of Ireland's FDI policies and the agency most responsible for making the investments happen. But it also pointed to a higher concentration risk in the number of sectors represented in the mix and the location of the parent companies. In other words, we are too dependent on the likes of tech and pharma, especially from the US. American firms account fo...
Source: independent.ie