The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary a resource of the .network library

goods and services:

... expression identifying both material things and work performed within an economy; production that either moves or is intended to move through an exchange process. The expression covers both tangible items and intangible efforts of employment. Tangible items are sometime identified as products, therefore, a related expression is products and services.

In a free-market economy the flow goods and services through a value chain contributes to wealth. Goods and services is is tied to consumption as a term of economics; therefore, it is useful as a way of identifying certain statistical measures of productivity output, such as gross domestic product, and income, such as per capita incume in a given area. Goods and services is of interest to governments as a utility useful for producing tax revenues.

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The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary a resource of the .network library

point of origin:

... the location where something that is conveyed though a process starts out; a station where something is recorded as received which can be referred to in tracking products and services moving through a system. Original point of origin refers back to the beginning of a conveyence process. Subsequent points suggests additional receiving stations in the process.

As a freight and shipping term, point of origin refers to the place where a transporter or carrier receives something from a shipper. A shipment is prepared and moves out from a point of origin into a transportation system, which are of interest to enterprise developers.

The term, point of origin, has an indirect relationship to enterprise and economic development. Site selectors include examination of transportation hubs when they do comparative analysis of places of interst. Transportation hubs identify locations that are regional centers of commerce. Enterprise developeers have a concern for the effecient movemnet of goods and services in and out of where they are located whether its the general area or the specific real estate site.

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