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Legal issues hold back IT sector here

Wednesday August 29, 2007

TONY WALTHAM

Thailand ranks 41st worldwide and ninth in Asia in a new global survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on IT industry competitiveness, according to Business Software Alliance (BSA) Software Policy director Seow Hiong Goh.

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Overall, Asia Pacific countries fared well in the global survey, which looked at the IT industry in 64 countries between November last year and April 2007. Industries in six categories were studied, with each category being further broken down into sub-categories comprising 25 indicators in all.

Each indicator and category was assigned its own "weighting," with the most emphasis being placed on research and development (25% overall), within which the number of patents registered was given the highest importance.

Two of the other five categories were given a 20 percent weighing as being the next most important: IT infrastructure and human capital, while the other three were the business environment (10%), legal environment (10%) and government support for the IT industry (15%).

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