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Secondary Activities
How is the high technology industry latest generation in manufacturing activities? Explain with examples.
High technology, or simply high-tech, is the latest generation of manufacturing activities.
(i) It is best understood as the application of intensive research and development (R &D) efforts leading to the manufacture of products of an advanced scientific and engineering character.
(ii) Robotics on the assembly line, computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing, electronic controls of smelting and refining processes, and the constant development of new chemical and pharmaceutical products are notable examples of a high-tech industry.
(iii) Neatly spaced, low, modern, dispersed, office-plant-lab buildings rather than massive assembly structures, factories and storage areas mark the high-tech industrial landscape.
(iv) High-tech industries which are regionally concentrated, self-sustained and highly specialised are called technopolies.
(v) The Silicon Valley near San Francisco and Silicon Forest near Seattle are examples of technopolies.
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In which one of the following type of economy are the factors of production owned individually?
Which one of the following types of industries produces raw materials for other industries?
Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
Write a short note on the following in about 30 words.
High-tech industry.
Write a short note on the following in about 30 words.
Manufacturing.
Write a short note on the following in about 30 words.
Footloose industries.
Differentiate between primary and secondary activities.
Discuss the major trends of modern industrial activities especially in the developed countries of the world.
Explain why high-tech industries in many countries are being attracted to the peripheral areas of major metropolitan centres.
Africa has immense natural resources and yet it is industrially the most backward continent. Comment.
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