Decisive Factors for IT Ecosystem Development in Moravica District, Serbia

Abstract

The research presents the role of the Information Technology study program, offered at the Faculty of Technical Sciences Čačak, in the development of the IT ecosystem in the Moravica District in Serbia. The data were collected on the companies and their employees, as well as on the percentage of the students and graduates of the mentioned study program in these companies. The correlation between the growth of the number of companies and the development of the study program was measured and the Pearson's coefficient (0.755) was calculated, which points to the existence of a strong relationship between the number of students enrolled in the IT study program and the number of IT companies in the Moravica District. Future work relates to further monitoring of the IT ecosystem and improvement of the study program following the market needs.