Best areas for investment: top-14
Deloitte&Touche Company together with National Venture Capital Association – NVCA, USA has recently published 2014 Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey, in which some advanced areas that are in focus of global investors in the second quarter of this year are described.
Рўhus, the list of 14 leading areas for investment according to the index of investor confidence includes (in the list below the areas are enumerated in descending order, where 5 is the maximum score, 1 – minimum):
1. Cloud computing (rating point 4.11);
2. Mobile apps (4.02);
3. eHealth and IT services for the healthcare system (3.94);
4. Enterprise Software (3.77);
5. Software for consumers (3.59);
6. New Media and Social Networking (3.51);
7. Robots and Robotics (3.41);
8. Medical devices and equipment (3.34);
9. Financial services (3.33);
10. Bio-engineering and pharmaceuticals (3.30);
11. Consumer Business (3.22);
12. clean technology and alternative energy (3.08);
13. Computer 13 “iron (2.83);
14. Semiconductors 14 (2.76).
Besides, in the survey it is underlined, that in general, in comparison with 2013 the investment volume in clean technologies increased 16%, robotics14%, healthcare, computer hardware and semiconductors 9%, financial services, consumer business, bio-engineering and pharmaceutical industry 6%, consumer software, new media and social networking 3%, cloud computing and enterprise software 2%.
In the Deloitte&Touche report It was also concluded that over the past year, a large number of investment start-ups, particularly in the area of cloud computing came to the IPO and provided its investors with a good profit rate. At the same time, the research authors admit that in the second quarter of this year, for example, in the United States almost did not reveal any breakthrough startup. Nevertheless, in this country there exist companies, which proprietary designs in the sphere of robotics and mobile technologies. The same tendensies can be observed throughout the world and , Р°nd do not feature USA only.
Hereafter there is a summary table on the leading world countries, which includes the information about which areas are prior and who is the investment volume leader (marked with yellow.
With reference to the table, it can be seen that an absolute leader according to the potential investment rate is China, which has 10 first places according to the index of investor confidence. Рўhus, among the countries, represented in the table, China took the first position in the high-tech sectors such as health and IT services, software for consumers, new media and social networks, robots, robotics, medical devices and equipment, bio-engineering and pharmaceuticals, consumer business, net technology and alternative energy, computer hardware and semiconductors. India is the leader from the point of view of high degree of return investment into cloud computing and mobile applications. If to speak about the rest two segments, enterprise software leader is Canada and financial services leader is Israel.
To sum up we should notice that Deloitte&Touche experts suppose that cloud computing mobile applications, IT in health care, different types of software development and robotics will set the tone of the current technological development and attract investors around the world in the very near future. If to speak about Belarus, due to the fact that here an offshore customized programming is developed, our IT companies have relatively high chances of getting further orders for at least the first five leading areas, as well as software development orders for the financial sector.