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

We’re a UK-wide research organisation exploring what productivity means for business

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

Research

Productivity studies

Productivity studies

Productivity helps businesses to use their resources more efficiently, freeing up money for investment in new business activity and jobs. Productivity supports workers’ income. And productivity helps society as the proceeds from technology and innovation spill over to other aspects of life, including health care, education and smarter ways to clean up our environment. Yet in recent decades, many of those mechanisms have broken down.

Recent Publications

The Productivity Institute Annual Review 2023-24

R. Donaldson, D. Jordan, J. Turner (2024)

Northern Ireland Management Booklet

C. L. Mann (2024)

UK Business Investment: Economists, Managers, Financiers