You get a 33% tax rebate via a research credit. You probably filled out a form for PWC to attest to that. There's 10s of 1000s of Engineers directly employed in R&D in Ireland, spanning automotive, telecoms, fintech, SaaS etc.. with a large number of companies receiving the credit.
We have a HUGE network effect now via the Silicon Docks and the other tech hubs around Ireland - Cork, Galway and Dublin are absolute inundated with groups of companies in certain industries. Seven of the ten of the world's top pharmaceutical companies including Janssen, AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck/MSD, Novartis, and Thermo Fisher Scientific are based within 50km of each other in Cork.
We have a HUGE network effect now via the Silicon Docks and the other tech hubs around Ireland - Cork, Galway and Dublin are absolute inundated with groups of companies in certain industries. Seven of the ten of the world's top pharmaceutical companies including Janssen, AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck/MSD, Novartis, and Thermo Fisher Scientific are based within 50km of each other in Cork.