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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.

Productivity Policy Unit

Dedicated to informing the government’s thinking about productivity growth.

Policy Unit

This is not the “productivity” budget, but how to make it one?

Prof. Bart van Ark | October 2024
  • Policy Commentary

Making NISTA a world leading success story

Prof. Graham Winch | October 2024
  • Productivity Policy Unit
Port Talbot

The end of traditional steelmaking in Britain

Nathan Critch, Darcy Luke | November 2024
  • Blog

Productivity Policy Unit launched to inform growth agenda

TPI | October 2024
  • News

Strategic Insights from Chief Information Officers

Nina Jörden, Wolé Adaramoye, Gerard Kuenning | October 2024
  • Strategic Productivity

Industrial Strategy: What To Do and What Not To Do?

Productivity Puzzles | October 2024
  • Podcast

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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