The IT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 industry competitiveness index, published online by the Business Software Association, measures factors like supply of skills, an innovation-friendly culture, world-class technology infrastructure, a robust legal

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

 regime and well-balanced government

Government

Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...

 support to IT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 industry, and a competition-friendly business environment. The countries that possess these capabilities do have high performance IT industries. Those countries possessing most of these “competitiveness enablers” are also home to high-performance IT industries.