• On Friday we will spend two hours with Professor Darren Kelly on tour of Dublin’s Docklands.   As he explained to us, Dublin’s Docklands are Ireland’s “Silicon Valley” – meaning an area of Ireland in which technology companies concentrate their offices and headquarters due to the presence of employee talent that supports high technology and a favorable geographic location for products and services related to technology.  This area of Dublin is home to offices and headquarters for companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter.  Based on your tour of Dublin’s Docklands neighborhood with Professor Kelly, what are your key takeaways on why Dublin’s Docklands area is such a great fit for companies that focus on high technology?

Dublin itself is a great fit for any company because of the amount of people in search of jobs in the area as well as the low corporate tax rate that allows the companies to invest more of their money into their business. The Docklands specifically are a great place for these companies to invest because there was a large amount of open space for construction of new buildings thanks to the fact that the Docklands used to be a shipping area full of factories that became unused and run down. The Docklands are also a great place for technology companies because the young population of Ireland is a great workforce to employ for these tech companies that are looking to appeal to the younger and older generations.