Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72428 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP04/05
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, Department of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
The information technology sector in Europe, comprising the production of computer hardware and software, is disproportionately located on the continent’s western periphery. The vast bulk of computers sold in Europe in the 1990s were assembled either in Ireland or Scotland, while Ireland also accounted for over 40 percent of all packaged software and 60 percent of all business software sold in Europe. As the sector in both these locations is largely foreign owned, the question arises as to whether EU enlargement might impact on the geography of the sector by diverting information technology FDI from the western to the new eastern periphery. This issue is explored in the present paper by analysis of five individual sub-segments: computer assembly and electronic components, R&D, mass market packaged software and the remainder of the software sector.
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
374.53 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.