Productivity Research Conference  4th – 5th September 2025 Find out more

A diverse community of leading experts, policymakers and practitioners

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

Investment in Places research project

Working closely with policymakers

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

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

The Regional Productivity Agenda

A guide to the productivity performance of the English regions and devolved nations

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Overcoming barriers to digital platform adoption in the UK

Myungun Kim, Yifeng (Philip) Chen, Chander Velu | May 2025
  • Blog

Insights from the EUKLEMS & INTANProd Database

Alfonso Silva-Ruiz, Raquel Ortega-Argilés | May 2025
  • Productivity Lab

Productivity, performance indicators and motivation

Susan Davies, Jyoti Choudrie, Matthew Coates | April 2025
  • Insights Paper

Developing a Scalable Solution to Improve SME Productivity

Holly Midwinter, Adam Hardy, Louis Shaw, Lauren Leak-Smith, Eva Kolker | April 2025
  • Report

Making Productivity Strategic

Bart van Ark | March 2025
  • Blog

Does Family Ownership Matter?

Yuchen Feng, Andrew Henley, Anna Kochanova | March 2025
  • Working 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.

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Productivity Forums

Our 8 Productivity Forums represent the English regions and devolved nations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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