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According to Forbes magazine\u2019s list of The World\u2019s Most Innovative Companies 2014 six of the top 10 have a presence in Ireland. Top of the pile is Salesforce.com. Not only is Saleforce.com No 1 on the Forbes list but this is a four-in-a row for the California-based enterprise cloud computing applications provider.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, Forbes uses a measure they call the Innovation Premium with which they rank the companies from 1-100. According to Forbes, \u2018the Innovation Premium is a measure of how much investors have bid up the stock price of a company above the value of its existing business based on expectations of future innovative results (new products, services and markets).\u2019<\/p>\n
Two Dublin based Irish companies are listed; Perrigo a global healthcare supplier is at 45 and Experian, a global information services provider is at 97 on the list. This is an important statistic and demonstrates that indigenous Irish companies are capable of recognition on the global stage.<\/p>\n
Ireland\u2019s reputation as a leader in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry is recognised as three of Forbes top ten are in this space and two of them Alexion Pharmaceuticals at No 2 and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in at No 5 are in the process of building new facilities in Ireland. Biomarin Pharmaceutical is No 7 and has a major production facility in Co. Cork.<\/p>\n
World renowned e-commerce innovator Amazon is at No 6 and VM Ware, the virtualisation infrastructure solutions provider is at No 9.<\/p>\n