Slovenia’s ICT industry has grown

 This week, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia released a couple of interesting and encouraging data points. The fast development of the ICT manufacturing & services in Slovenia is a result of systematic human development, well-developed ICT infrastructure and government commitment to boosting the ICT sector as one of the national development priorities. To benefit from the EU development policy, Slovenian experts and their foreign partners participate in target-oriented technology platforms within the European and national research programmes. 

Despite the overall decrease, the ICT industry has grown, particularly on the account of the services, software development and other related activities that generated 36 % of all added value in the industry. The number of employees in the ICT industry has grown by 2 percent in 2013 compared to 2012, proving once again that knowledge-based companies are far more resilient to economic slowdowns than manufacturers or other companies with lower added value. However, the most important piece of news is that in the period from 2005 to 2013 the number of ICT companies has doubled and grew by 119 percent with the majority of growth coming from service companies.

http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/show-news?id=5313&title=ICT-sector-detailed-data-Slovenia-2013http://www.investslovenia.org/industries/ict/