Clean Technology

Ireland has secured a reputation as one of the leading global locations for Foreign Direct Investment and the emerging Clean Tech Sector is locating in Ireland based on this reputation. One of Ireland’s best attributes for attracting FDI is the opportunity for investors to locate their operations in a large variety of locations right across the country.

Ireland’s main cities are Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford and these cities have seen clusters of specific sectors grow up and around them. However, IDA defines locations for investment in Ireland by region and as such there are nine regions covering all of the Republic of Ireland.
 

All of these nine regions have benefited from FDI as they all have the ability to meet the requirements of overseas investors. These requirements include access to a skilled and flexible workforce, the right management, financial and corporate skills, a highly developed industrial infrastructure and increasingly opportunities to partner with high-level development resources such as third level education and similar advance enterprises.

Research and Development is a key activity for Clean Tech companies and Ireland’s broad range of universities and educational institutes are a vital part of Ireland’s attraction for Clean Tech. As such, companies in this sector will often locate to a region containing an educational establishment that they can partner with to achieve their R&D requirements.