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leading experts, policymakers
and practitioners

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

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productivity means for business

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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The Productivity Institute at Trade Unlocked 2023

In this session, Professor Bart van Ark, will put forward his diagnosis of the UK’s productivity puzzle.

NewsJun 2, 2023
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What can the UK learn from ‘turnaround cities’?

How wide-ranging long-term strategies and a unified approach transformed eight post-industrial cities.

InsightsMay 23, 2023
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Conference: Productivity Revolutions – Past and Future

Register for this in-person event at AMBS to hear keynotes from Michela Giorcelli and John Van Reenan.

NewsMay 25, 2023
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Trailblazer Deals – a breakthrough in devolved skills policy?

What will the ‘trailblazer deals’ with Greater Manchester and the West Midlands mean for local skills policy in practice?

InsightsApr 27, 2023

Putting productivity at the heart of university-led investment zones

Nigel Driffield and Sam Roseveare analyse the key questions that need to be addressed to maximise the benefits of the UK's new investment zones and how productivity factors into these question.

InsightsMay 10, 2023

Skills, Innovation, and Productivity – The role of Further Education Colleges in Local and Regional Ecosystems

Research from 16 interviews with FECs across England which find six ways that government and business can boost their skills delivery.

TPI ReportsMar 15, 2023

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.

TPI Insight papersDec 16, 2022

The Productivity Institute signs MoU with Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

MoU enables cooperation on generating new insights into the problem of low productivity growth and the role of accountants and finance professionals.

NewsMay 3, 2023

Anna Stansbury seminar: Tackling the UK’s regional inequality

An overview of the paper "Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention", which was was co-authored with Dan Turner and Ed Balls.

NewsApr 27, 2023

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Listen to the latest editions of the Productivity Puzzles podcast.

Greening Productivity

PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLES EP 25
podcast
May 25, 2023

Can We Make the Four-Day Week Work?

PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLES EP 24
podcast
Apr 27, 2023

Skills, Innovation, and Productivity: Further Education Colleges and Place

PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLES EP 23
podcast
Mar 16, 2023
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