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

The Productivity Institute

We’re a UK-wide research organisation exploring what productivity means for business, for workers and for communities – how it is measured and how it truly contributes to increased living standards and well-being.

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Introducing The Productivity Lab

The Lab acts as a portal to The Productivity Institute’s data content, visualisations, and insights.

NewsJan 25, 2023
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Priorities for 2023 – The UK Productivity Commission

This Productivity Commission report sets out what it learned in its first year and policy priorities for 2023.

ReportsJan 20, 2023

A New Season of the Productivity Puzzles Podcast

Season 2 of Productivity Puzzles with Bart van Ark has begun. Episode 1 is available on our website or wherever you get your podcasts.

NewsJan 20, 2023
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Macroeconomic Perspectives on Productivity

Surveying UK productivity performance over the long run across countries and focus on the sharp slowdown since the global financial crisis.

Working papersDec 13, 2022
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Science and innovation policy for hard times: an overview of the UK’s Research and Development landscape

A look at the history and future of the UK's science and innovation policy.

Insight papersDec 16, 2022

International comparisons and collaboration key to tackling productivity challenges

TPI Research Fellow Dirk Pilat discusses how different perspectives can be transferred to the policy environment.

InsightsNov 30, 2022

Between a rock and a hard place: Trade offs between prosperity and inclusivity when implementing regional growth policies

Providing initial data to explore the relationship between prosperity and inequality growth at a UK regional level.

Insight papersNov 30, 2022

Greening productivity measurement

Can adjusting the measurement of productivity to account for environmental factors help drive both economic growth and the Net Zero transition?

InsightsNov 9, 2022

The UK’s Foreign Investment Position post Brexit and COVID: Briefing 2

Tracking the changing patterns of inward investment in the UK as we emerge from COVID-19, and as trading relations with the rest of the world become more certain.

Executive SummariesDec 7, 2022

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Listen to the latest editions of the Productivity Puzzles podcast.

Global and European Productivity Outlook 2023-2030

PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLES EP 21
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Jan 19, 2023

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Jan 10, 2023
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The Productivity Policy Agenda: Short-Term Priorities and Long-Term Commitments

PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLES EP 20
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Sep 6, 2022
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