Design accounts for 21% of exports, research shows

Design exports account for 21% of all Irish exports, new research to be published today reveals.

A total of 48,000 people, or 2.5% of the workforce, were employed in design in 2014, research carried out by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation as part of ID2015, the year of Irish Design, has found.

This figure is up 6.7% since 2011.