In recent years, Ireland 's high-tech industry has become a bright spot, and many digital industry giants have settled in Ireland. The top eight high-tech companies in the United States have all settled in Ireland. In the global digital industry, Ireland is strong, and many well-known big brands, such as eBay, PayPal, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, Google, Facebook, have set up branches in Ireland.
Today's Ireland is full of corporate creativity and vitality. Entrepreneurs in the Internet and gaming industries, as well as emerging companies, have launched new products one after another with the aim of saving lives and protecting the environment. On a per capita basis, Ireland receives more venture capital investment than any other European country, and we also receive more technology development promotion programmes. Of the eight top science and technology development promotion programs in Europe, three are owned by Ireland.
Ireland ranks second among the 15 countries with the best entrepreneurial environment in Europe. More and more entrepreneurs choose to start a business in Ireland. There are 32,000 people setting up businesses in Ireland, and one in every 11 adults in the country is engaged in some type of early-stage entrepreneurial activity. Ireland is a small country with a total population of only 4.5 million, but it has a positive entrepreneurial spirit!
Ireland is a vibrant country. More than one-third of the country's population is under the age of 25. We open our hearts and welcome entrepreneurs and foreign-funded enterprises from all over the world to invest in Ireland.
Ireland also ranks high in the World Bank rankings. Ireland is one of the top ten most convenient countries in the world for doing business. According to World Bank statistics, Ireland ranks fourth in the world in terms of the number of technical talents and innovation, sixth in the world in labor productivity, seventh in the world in terms of the number of financial technology talents, and national flexibility and adaptability. Ranked seventh in the world for sex.
More than 1,000 multinational companies have their European headquarters in Ireland. Companies that require highly educated and highly skilled talents to promote development choose to set up branches in Ireland. More than 1,000 well-known foreign direct investment companies from information and communication technology, social media, medicine and finance, including Google, HP, Apple, IBM, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Pfizer, GSK and Genzyme, have their European headquarters in Ireland.
Ireland continues to attract significant foreign direct investment (FDI). Ireland is the second most attractive country for overseas direct investment in the world, after Singapore.
Ireland has many foreign-funded multinational companies, and local companies are also extremely active. There are several companies competing on the world stage, including CRH, Smurfit Kappa, DCC, Glen Dimplex, Greencore, Kingspan, NTR and Paddy Power.
In Ireland, half of all medical technology companies are founded by Irish people. Ireland's software exports to the UK and US are also very active.
Ireland has a natural competitive advantage in the food and drink industry.
Ireland is Europe's largest beef exporter and ranks fourth in the world in terms of beef export volume. In McDonald's stores across Europe, one out of every five beef burgers every day is made with Irish beef.
