FACTORS IMPACTING INVESTMENT DECISIONS IN ICT INDUSTRY
Svetlana BILOOCAIA, Moldova State University
Abstract
The article analyzes the main factors influencing investors’ decisions on the advisability of investing capital in
companies in the information and communication technology industry. The present article’s relevance lies in identifying the main investment objectives that determine investment decisions in innovative sectors of the economy which
comprise security, growth and stable income and in identifying the most impacting factors on investment attraction
in the ICT industry in a number of developed and developing European countries, the main factors being: political
stability, legal environment, investments attraction policies; taxation; infrastructure development, level of country
digitalization, science and technology; workforce, competitiveness in terms of cost and productivity.
Keywords: investment decisions, factors impacting investments, company information and communication
technology.