If Northern Ireland can be transformed into the UK’s leading knowledge economy it would result in an extra 25,500 direct jobs across 6,000 new technology businesses and an additional 24,000 indirect jobs in the economy, generating an extra £3bn of Gross Value Added (GVA), according to a new report.
This scale of change would have a profound effect on the NI economy, turning it into one of the UK’s strongest, according to the Northern Ireland Knowledge Economy Index – Baseline Report published today by NISP CONNECT in partnership with Northern Bank.
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