Question

why do so many high tech firms such as google set up shop in the United States instead of other countries?

Answer 1

Ans

Primary reasons are

1 Usa has highly skilled labour. These firms gain from higher skills of these workers.

2 Many firms like Apple, Microsoft etc were made in usa itself since Usa great no. Of good entrepreneurs

3 usa economy is biggest in world and as such these companies want to benefit from huge market of usa

4 funds in usa are cheaply available as due to being largest economy most of the world investors invest in usa

5 patents, copyrights, trademarks etc are strongly protected by usa law

6 usa has good trade agreements with many of the countries of world and any firm operating from USA faces less restrictions in other countries

7 USA policies and institutions have also been supportive.