Business and Science Parks

Question 1

What economy is it when services become more important?

Answer 1

• Post Industrial economy

Question 2

What industry is growing as secondary manufacturing is declining in the UK?

Answer 2

• The Quaternary industry

Question 3

Science and Business parks are often…

Answer 3

• On the outskirts of cities near good transport links (Cambridge Science park near a motorway and Stansted airport)
• Close to housing to accommodate workers (Histon, Milton at Cambridge science park and Crawley at Manor Royal)
• Near Universities, so that research businesses in science park can have access to university students and researchers. This allows them to develop cutting edge technology

Question 4

State some evidence of there being a North-South divide in the UK.

Answer 4

• Wages are lower in North than South (40% lower in Huddersfield than in London)
• Health is worse in North than South (Glasgow in 2012 was 72.6 years, in Dorset, it was 82.9 years)
• Education (GCSE results are better in South than the North)

Question 5

What Transport networks does the UK have which makes economic development easy?

Answer 5

• Roads
• Railways
• Airports
• Ports (London Gateway is operating at the mouth of the river Thames)