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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

Regions, cities and finance

Michiel Daams, Colin Mayer, Philip McCann | November 2024
  • Insights Paper

An end to the policy ‘merry-go-round’?

Darcy Luke, Nathan Critch | November 2024
  • Policy Commentary

Unbound: UK Trade post-Brexit

Jun Du, Xingyi Liu, Oleksandr Shepotylo, Yujie Shi
  • Insights Paper

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

Bart van Ark | October 2024
  • Policy Commentary

Making NISTA a world leading success story

Graham Winch | October 2024
  • Productivity Policy Unit

Productivity Policy Unit launched to inform growth agenda

TPI | October 2024
  • News

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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