Upside of Dell move highlighted in study

WHEN Dell relocated 1,900 jobs from Limerick to Poland in 2009, a further 10,000 high-tech jobs were also lost in this country in the months that followed.

However, a new study suggests more than 6,000 better-paid and sustainable high-end technology jobs were created here that year.

New research, carried out by Dr Patrick Collins and Professor Seamus Grimes of the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change at NUI Galway, has attempted to uncover the fallout of the Dell decision — and ask what it has meant for the competitive positioning of Ireland more generally.