knowledge intensive service activities in the irish software industry country report for oecd kisa project 2002 2005 laura e martinez solano 1 majella giblin 2 edel walshe 3 centre innovation & structural change cisc 4 nui galway ireland february warwick ac uk wants to acknowledge support of pard iarc manufacturing group university coventry cv4 7al a nuigalway ie at we would like research funding via hea prtli cycle programme government s national development plan 2006 also professor roy green management department contents introduction 5 step statistics on contours computer and related services 9 programmes policies information communication technologies ict sectors 14