Serbia allocates 60 euros per capita in the IT field, which, according to the Serbian Minister of Trade and Telecommunications, Rasim Ljajić, is more than in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. Croatia invests significantly more in the IT sector, which allocates 200 euros per capita, while some Western European countries allocate up to 800 euros on average for the IT sector.
Montenegro does not have precise figures on how many employees there are in that industry in general, how many IT companies there are in Montenegro, and how much they participate in the Montenegrin economy.
"Information on the size and structure of the IT market in Montenegro is not completely reliable, because there are no special statistical data for that sector," Veselin Dragićević, secretary of the Board of the Association of Information and Communication Technologies of the Chamber of Commerce, told "Vijesta" recently.
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More than 430 companies that formally belong to the IT sector are registered in the Central Register of Business Entities. Of that number, about 49 percent are manufacturers and distributors of computers and computer equipment, and 51 percent are manufacturers and distributors of computer services and programs. The number of active companies is half that and, according to some estimates, there are slightly more than 200 IT companies operating in Montenegro today.
Hardware sales make up 80 percent of Montenegrin IT business, only a few companies are more serious about more complex IT solutions, services and software development. In the first half of 2012, most IT companies in Montenegro had a 20 to 30 percent drop in revenue compared to the previous year, operating mostly on the edge of profitability or below it.
The "wind at your back" gave the Serbian IT industry the information that last year, for the first time, that country earned more from software exports than from raspberry exports. Last year, Serbia earned 140 million dollars from the export of raspberries. Softer exports brought almost twice as much money to that country
In Serbia, the value of that industry in 2012 was estimated at around 400 million dollars. For Montenegro - again no data...
The "wind at your back" gave the Serbian IT industry the information that last year, for the first time, that country earned more from software exports than from raspberry exports. Last year, Serbia earned 140 million dollars from the export of raspberries. Softer exports brought almost twice as much money to that country. About 6.500 people work in the Serbian IT industry, said Ljajić. Ljajić believes that IT is an area in which there are great export potentials and chances to reduce the foreign trade deficit, and that this requires greater investments.
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According to the budget proposal for 2013, the planned funds for the Ministry of Information Society and Telecommunications amount to 5,36 million euros, which is slightly more compared to last year, when the MIDT budget was 4,27 million, but also many times less than in 2009, when there were 10 million euros in the coffers of that Ministry...
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