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

Research

Knowledge Capital

Knowledge Capital

The institutional structure of research in the UK seems not to provide the coordination necessary for success, particularly in high technology and high value-added areas. There is a need to better understand and measure the impact knowledge capital and other types of intangible capital created by the public and private sectors on productivity.

Theme lead

Professor Diane Coyle

Co-Investigators

Dr Chander Velu

Professor Vasco Carvalho Professor of Macroeconomics, Director of Cambridge-INET, University of Cambridge

Professor Richard Jones

Theme Paper

The idea of productivity

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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.

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Failing to Level Up? Industrial policy and productivity in interwar Northern Ireland

Demonstrating that regional institutions created barriers to productivity growth in Northern Ireland in the interwar period by using new comparisons and and new archival evidence.

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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.