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Resilience amid turmoil Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness 2009

With the onset of the worst global recession in decades, new threats to the competitiveness of national IT (information technology) sectors are materialising. Industry health overall has
held up well despite sharply reduced spending in most parts of the world on IT hardware, software and services. However, protectionist instincts are on the ascendant, even in the most free-market economies, while venture-capital and other forms of funding are being squeezed. Even the biggest IT firms are cutting back on their investments in R&D (research and development). In addition, the downturn means that broadband companies may be unwilling to fund new deployments without better regulation. As the Internet becomes a prerequisite for many parts of the IT industry, such hold-ups could harm the IT sector’s development in many countries..........(계속)