BICC-Talk Chancen auf dem kanadischen Markt für IT-und Telekommunikationsunternehmen 26. Januar 2012 Kanadisches Konsulat München
Agenda The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service Canada s ICT Profile Digital Media Overview Software Overview Telecommunications Overview 2
Trade Commissioner Service Canadian Trade Commissioner s Service Who we are What we do What we don t do Role in Munich / Germany 3
Overview of ICT in Canada Employment Distribution for Selected ICT Industries (Share of Canadian Total) Ontario Quebec BC Alberta Manitoba Telecommunications Equipment (2008) i.e. RIM, ComDev, Aastra, 71% 15% 3%* 11% Microelectronic Manufacturing (2008) i.e. IBM, Teledyne-Dalsa, Matrox 45% 37% 8% 6% 1% 3% Software Publishing (2008) i.e. EA, Ubisoft, Open Text 37% 24% 27% 8% 2% 3% Computer Services (2008) i.e. CGI, IBM, Accenture 46% 23% 12% 11% 1.5% 6% Telecom Services (2009) i.e. Bell, Telus, Rogers 47% 15% 11% 10% 18% TOTAL (2009) 50.8% 20.2% 11.6% 9.5% 7.9% Rest of Canada Source: 2009 data from ICT Regional Report based on Statistics Canada, 2008 data from Statistics Canada (SEPH, unadjusted for seasonal variation, by NAICS, annual (persons)), *italics indicate estimate based on 2007 data. 12% Vancouver Software Publishing & Development (including Games) Calgary Wireless Computer Services 11% 2% Share of ICT GDP 2% Ottawa Telecommunications Equipment 47% Greater Toronto Telecommunications Equipment Microelectronic Software Publishing & Development 22% Kitchener- Waterloo Wireless Software Publishing & Development 1% 2% Greater Montreal Telecommunications Equipment Microelectronic Software Publishing & Development (including Games) 4 1% 4
Digital Media / Games Canada is a great place to work wherever you come from. It has a high quality of life and a lot of talented people working in art and science. Nicolas Rioux, General Manager, Ubisoft 5
Digital Media / Games Talent Home to one of the world s most highly skilled video games labour markets 16,000 games development workers and over 250 companies across the games development value chain. Business Costs: Providing competitive labour costs (even before tax credit considerations) Offering the world s most competitive labour-based tax credits Offering compelling national and provincial R&D tax credits Canada Media Fund (CMF) '#" '!" &"!"#$%&'$($)*+#$,-&.$,-/$&0",12,3& $" Domestic Industry: #" Third best country for video game development.!" ()*"+'",-.-/"+#" 0-/-1-"+2" )3"4567-"+$" 089/-"+:" (4"+%" $786 million in development expenditures in 2008 1.5% of global transactions originated in Canada in 2007 Canada claims two of the top five Develop 100 developers, with EA Canada and Ubisoft Montreal %" 6
Montreal Talent: Montreal has a large existing games workforce with ready access to new talent from the many post-secondary and specialized training institutions such as the Centre national d animation et de design. Lower Cost of Opera&on Business Costs: A low corporate tax rate, low cost of operations, tax holidays and advantageous tax incentives make Montreal extremely competitive in terms of the costs of doing business Local Industry: Montreal is a key jurisdiction for development of console and mobile games - with Ubisoft leading the charge!"#$%"&'"&()*$+(,$-()*$ 674<.,$ 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 94.7 100.1 96 99 110.1 109.7 94.2 95 91.6 86 91.2 86.2 City Cost Index Ma nufa cturing: Telecom Software Design Manchester Paris Montreal Web/Multimedia :418;07<84$ 6107894$ 2,345$ /,0+1$ *+,-,.$!"!#$ %"!#$ &!"!#$ &%"!#$ '!"!#$ '%"!#$ (!"!#$ (%"!#$ )!"!#$ Compe&&ve Tax Credit 7
Vancouver Talent: Vancouver is home to Canada s largest cluster of game development employment Business Costs: A low corporate tax rate, low cost of operations and both input (investment) and output (development) tax credits combine to make Vancouver a very low cost place to operate a games business Local Industry: Vancouver is a key jurisdiction for development of console (and high-budget PC) titles one of EA s largest development locations Low Corporate Tax Rate Lower Cost of Opera&on Compe&&ve Tax Credit 8
Toronto Talent: The Greater Toronto Area s (GTA s) educational institutions produce a large pool of new talent every year Business Costs: A unique combination of games-related tax credits and competitive corporate tax rates make Toronto an attractive place to do business Local Industry: The region boasts a vibrant indie games community made up of mostly small and medium independent firms, and a number of industry associations and support organizations (io, DATA, GTMA) Compe&&ve Tax Credit Compe&&ve Corporate Tax Rate 9
Software Overview Canada is home to 20 of Software Magazine s Top 500 global software companies, the second-highest national percentage in the world¹. The overall Canadian ICT sector comprises 31,500 companies of which 79% operate in the software and computer services sectors². Canada ranks 4th globally in technology infrastructure. ¹Source: Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, http://www.cwta.ca/cwtasite/english/index.html ²Source: Canada s ICT Industry: A National Perspective. Branham Group, June 2010 ³Source: EIU e-readiness Rankings for 2009. http://graphics.eiu.com/pdf/e-readiness%20rankings.pdf. 2009. 10
Canadian Software Landscape British Columbia Saskatchewan Alberta Manitoba Ontario Newfoundland Quebec PEI New Brunswick Nova Scotia 11
Software Strengths Enterprise Application Software Cloud Computing E-health 12
Telecommunications Importance of Telecoms in Canada Regional telecoms clusters North-South orientation Canada as a NA test market 13
Market characteristics - Part 1 Share of fixed broadband subscriptions by technology, 2010 6% 58% Source: OECD 14
Market characteristics - Part 2 Wireless Industry Forecast 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 No. of Mobile phone subscribers (millions) No. of Mobile Phone Subscribers/ 100 inhabitants No. of 3G phone Subscribers (millions) 3G market as %of Entire Mobile Market 24.1 25.7 27.2 28.4 29.3 29.9 71.3% 75.6% 79.3% 82.2% 84.2% 85.4% 2.8 3.6 4.4 5.3 6.7 8.6 12.0% 14.2% 16.5% 18.9% 22.9% 28.9% Source: Canada Telecoms Report Q1 2011 by www.businessmonitor.com 15
Focus areas Telecoms Sector Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M) Connected Vehicle IPTV 16
Upcoming Events Where to meet the Canadian Telecoms Industry in Europe Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2/2012 CeBIT Hannover 3/2012 M2M Summit - Düsseldorf 9/2012 Intl Broadcasting Conference, Amsterdam 9/2012 17
Contact Information Nicole Van Hove, Vice-Consul and Trade Commissioner nicole.vanhove@international.gc.ca Cliff Singleton, Trade Commissioner cliff.singleton@international.gc.ca 18