An interesting article from the Financial Post discusses a new study released by the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, in which it measures that more than 14,000 people are now directly employed by more than 247 Canadian video-game companies. This amount surpasses the number of Canadian retail and transportation jobs. It also eclipses the UK, for the third ranked spot, Japan and the US round off the top two positions.
The article also mentioned that protecting intellectual property rights is quickly becoming an important issue in Canada:
” “We have to start looking at intellectual-property industries like the video-game industry as really significant and important to the future of our country,” said Danielle Parr, executive director of the ESAC. “We are not going to be successful unless people really understand that this industry is important, it’s growing and it’s valuable to Canada.”
According to Parr, most jobs in the video-game industry are high-paying software development jobs. Based on the most recent statistics provided by Statistics Canada, 138,000 people were employed as computer programmers and interactive media developers in Canada in 2008. When compared with the ESAC numbers, it shows as much as 10 per cent of Canada’s software jobs are in the video-game industry.”
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