Intensive way of development

There are such ways of development of society as extensive and intensive.

At the first type of development, growth is achieved through a quantitative increase in the factors of production on the existing technical base. For example, if there is a need to increase the volume of production, this is provided by introducing new enterprises of a similar, already existing capacity, with equipment of the same quality, equivalent to the number of employees and the level of their qualification. This development is slow and it can not last indefinitely, because over time resources are being depleted. One day you will inevitably have to move to a new level.

The intensive way of development is the opposite direction. This way involves increasing the scale of production by improving the quality of its factors and introducing more economical natural resources, upgrading the skills of employees, introducing new technologies, improving the organization of production. Thanks to all this, the return from all the resources involved in production increases.

With this approach, to increase the output of production do not resort to the construction of additional enterprises. The results are achieved through the reconstruction, modernization, re-equipment of existing and improving ways of using the resources at the disposal of the enterprise.

In life, an extensive and intensive development path in its pure form is practically not observed. As a rule, they are combined in certain proportions and combinations. Therefore, it is said that society or production develops primarily in an intensive or extensive way.

Economic development is determined by a number of factors. They can be divided into several groups:

1. Natural resources. Some countries have them more (USA, China, Russia, etc.), others - to a lesser extent;
2. Capital (volume of investments in the economy);
3. Advantageous geographical position (it helps to extract income from the need of other countries to transport goods on its territory);
4. Human resources, which are characterized by a certain level of education, health and hard work;
5. The level of development of technology and science, which helps to accelerate the development of the economy.

The intensive way of development today is directly connected with the use of computer, computer technology, high automation of production. All this allows us to ensure the increase in labor productivity, its content, significantly save materials, raw materials and energy, while improving the quality of products. In such conditions it is necessary to form a new attitude to work, to stimulate the manifestation of creativity in work and to treat it in a faithful manner.

The intensive way of development is closely connected with the concept of innovation activity. Also, intensification is also important - the process of accelerating the development of social production, which is based on the use of more effective objects of labor, forms of organization of labor in accordance with the achievements of technological progress, with the utmost use of all groups of factors of production.

The most rapid pace of life development characterized the last third of the XX century due to the particularly rapid pace of scientific progress. The interaction of science and production has led to the emergence of science-intensive technologies. They ensure the maximum effective use of developments that are introduced into production processes.

Thus, in contrast to the extensive direction, intensive development is characterized by qualitative changes in the factors of production, the transfer of expanded reproduction to a fundamentally new technical basis.