John Collin’s excellent piece in The Currency got to the heart of why Ireland’s multinational tech sector needs to get closer to our domestic tech sector.  Multinationals don’t just create jobs and pay taxes. These positive effects are also added to by lots of positive spillovers, especially around technical know-how and skills training. To date, research has found positive spillovers from multinationals to the domestic sectors in Ireland are relatively rare.  In knowledge work, like the tech sector, spillovers usually take the form of people moving, taking their ideas and know-how with them, from company to company. Multinational companies have…

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