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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.

Our Research

Strategic Productivity for the Leadership Team

This briefing paper captures thinking into how senior business leaders can work more closely across functions to improve productivity.

ReportsSep 21, 2022

Guide to making public sector productivity practical released

Boost could create a higher quality of service and a happier workforce as well as reducing tax burdens and supporting fiscal responsibility.

NewsAug 23, 2022

Of chickens and eggs: Exporting, innovation novelty and productivity

Why are exporting firms more productive? Are productive firms export or is it exporting that leads to higher productivity?

Working papersSep 28, 2022

Is there a link between Small Business Leadership and Productivity?

Leadership quality has been proposed as an important explanation for differences in the productivity performance between so-called ‘frontier’ and ‘laggard’ firms.

ReportsSep 22, 2022

The work-from-home revolution and the performance of cities

Examining the effects of the work-from-home and hybrid work revolution on the spatial structures and performance of cities.

Working papersSep 23, 2022

Green growth and net zero policy in the UK: some conceptual and measurement issues

A discussion of some of the fundamental issues related to the future growth of productivity under net zero climate change policies.

Working papersJul 26, 2022

Changing times: Incentive regulation, corporate reorganisations, and productivity in Great Britain’s gas networks

Two separate productivity analyses are undertaken to examine the effects of changes of regulations and ownership in the GB gas industry.

Working papersJul 20, 2022

Levelling Up: The Need for an Institutionally Coordinated Approach to National and Regional Productivity

The UK’s endemic regional-national productivity problems cannot be addressed by the UK’s current institutional and governance set-up.

Insight papersJul 4, 2022

Can public services improve their productivity without new funding?

How to connect our knowledge about concepts, measurement, drivers and barriers to productivity growth in the public sector with practical insights into how to improve.

InsightsAug 23, 2022

Latest Publications

Of chickens and eggs: Exporting, innovation novelty and productivity

H. Jibril, S. Roper (2022) WORKING PAPER 027
FECs, innovation, and skills: A literature review

J.Nelles, K. Walsh, M. Papazoglu (2022) PIP012
The work-from-home revolution and the performance of cities

S. Bond-Smith, P. McCann (2022) WORKING PAPER 026
Is there a link between Small Business Leadership and Productivity?

A. Henley (2022) ERC TPI JOINT SOTA REVIEW 1
Strategic Productivity for the Leadership Team

K. Penney, J. Pendrill (2022) REPORT

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Research Projects

Human capital, innovation and competitiveness in the UK’s leading firms

D. Grimshaw, M. Miozzo
Addressing the Net-Zero and productivity challenges: How could the housing sector play a key role?

J. Pinkse
Innovation, internationalisation and productivity

S. Roper, J. Du
The UK Productivity-Governance Puzzle: Are the UK’s Governing Institutions Fit for Purpose in the 21st Century?

D. Richards, A. Westwood, M. Kenny, P. Diamond
UK regional productivity level and growth: from the micro to the macro

G. Mion

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