We explain what technological resources are, what types exist, their importance and examples. Also, other types of resources.
What are technological resources?
Technological resources are those elements from scientific-technical innovation that enable or facilitate some work, especially productive. More simply, it is about the contributions of technology to the other productive fields of the human being, making it possible, or easier and faster, to achieve a goal.
It is common to use “technological resources” in areas as different as business administration, economics or even education, with a similar meaning. But whatever their context of application, they constitute in today’s hypertechnological world, one of the most determining factors in human activity, that is, it is one of the factors that usually make the difference between success and failure.
This is because technological resources can, broadly speaking, fulfill important tasks in areas such as communication, production, regulation or transportation.
They make work or learning tasks much more efficient, agile or even entertaining. They can even revolutionize the very idea of work and learning, breaking paradigms in order to open the door to innovative and unsuspected scenarios, as has happened many times in recent decades.
Types of technological resources
These resources can be of two different types:
- Tangible technological resourcesWhen it comes to tools, pieces of machinery, concrete, physical elements that we can apply to a specific task.
- Intangible technological resources, when, on the contrary, it is about incorporeal, abstract elements, such as computer programs (software) or the Internet.
Importance of technological resources
As we said before, technological resources tend to be the first to be considered in today’s world, because they allow more than ever before in history to carry out tasks in new ways.
For example, what online commerce represented for business, or ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) for personal and affective life, are just examples of the gigantic potential that exists in applied technology, that is, the potential that it has to solve problems. No other element developed by humanity has that capacity to transform reality., like technology.
Examples of technological resources
Some examples of technological resources are:
- Internet and telecommunicationsCapable of speeding up the transmission of information more than ever before, they can be used commercially, as a resource for distance education, or as a way to effectively coordinate the links of a company.
- The robotic and automationIn the industrial and productive world, they are the most revolutionary resource in terms of maximizing time and speed of work, and at the same time putting in check the need for industrial workers.
- Specialized software, one of the most powerful professional tools of the last decades, is already part of the knowledge that all recent graduates must use to practice their profession. Architects, engineers, librarians, and even scriptwriters and designers use computer programs that allow them to work better and faster.
Other types of resources
In addition to technological resources, mention is often made of:
- Financial resources, which have to do with the capital and the capacity for indebtedness, necessary to promote any productive project, for profit or not.
- Human resources, which are nothing but the staff of workers, specialized or not, who are dedicated to a specific productive work.
- Administrative resources, which are the logistical heart of any company, organization or human initiative, since they serve as control, communication and decision-making.