Year 11 - New & Emerging Technology

What are the benefits of introducing new technology to industry?

• Cutting costs by changing to more efficient manufacturing methods

• Products being brought to market more quickly

• Easier manipulation of information

• A decrease in human error

• Longer working hours

Demographic movement may occur because younger workers

• Are drawn to new opportunities

• Are bored in their home town

• Are being forced out of their own jobs

The negative impact of demographic movement is

• Fewer people to house and feed

• Adds cultural diversity

• Pressure of housing and health services

• An ageing community

Enterprise is

• a business, started by someone taking a risk setting up, investing in and running a unique business plan

• a business, invested in and run by someone who is copying another business model.

Crowd funding is

• a method of raising funds from many people for an enterprise via online platforms

• a method of raising funds from big business people for an enterprise via online platforms

An apprenticeship is

• a job with training that allows people to gain nationally recognised qualifications.

• a job with training that allows people to gain qualifications, which aren't recognised nationally.

• a job which trains students in that companies way of doing tasks,