The Institute’s key research themes are led by ten academic partners spread across the UK.

Businesses are crucial to solving the UK’s productivity problems.

Working closely with policymakers.

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We’re a UK-wide research organisation exploring what productivity means for business

World-leading productivity research

Our mission is to support a step-change in the quality and quantity of productivity research available in the UK.

Place-Based Policy Making in Modern Times

Bart van Ark, Jeffrey Anderson, Andy Westwood | January 2026
  • Podcast

The New Political Economy of Place-based Policymaking

Jeffrey Anderson and Andy Westwood | January 2026
  • Working paper

National Productivity Week 2026 – Better outcomes for people, firms and places

TPI | December 2025
  • News

Productivity and policies in post – independence India: From planning to liberalisation

Abdul A Erumban | December 2025
  • Insights Paper

Where has all the productivity gone? Italy’s missing growth in the 21st century

Giuseppe Nicoletti, Iris Smiderle | December 2025
  • Insights Paper

Productivity trends and policies in the Netherlands

Mark van der Plaat, Konstantin Sommer, Leon Bettendorf | December 2025
  • Insights Paper

Highlights from the Lab

The Productivity Laboratory is our data science centre of excellence, the “engine room” for collecting, disseminating, and producing productivity data.

Productivity Forums

Our 9 Productivity Forums represent the English regions and devolved nations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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