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How does digitalisation support firms’ strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation

This paper investigates how firms navigate the dual challenges of digitalisation and climate change.

Capturing Green and Digital Intensities: Key Metrics for Monitoring the Twin Transition

This paper presents a novel, harmonized dataset to analyse the Twin Transition and its impact on labour markets across 30 OECD countries.

Macroeconomic trends & policy

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The SME Opportunity: Mobilising Smaller Firms for Productivity and Sustainability Impact

This paper examines whether small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could play a more significant role in advancing the UK’s productivity and sustainability goals

Organisational Capital

Framing a place-based investment strategy for South Tyneside

A study for South Tyneside Council exploring how targeted investment across seven types of capital can transform outcome.

Geography & Place

The links between sectoral and regional investment and sectoral, regional, and aggregate productivity in the United Kingdom

This paper documents significant regional and sectoral productivity disparities in the UK with important implications for aggregate productivity and living standards

Geography & Place

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Heterogeneous Capital and the Productivity of UK Manufacturing Firms

This paper explores how investment in different types of capital affects estimates of firm level total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the UK.

Macroeconomic trends & policy

Why Does UK Infrastructure Cost So Much?

In this Insights Paper we investigate the high, and growing, costs of UK infrastructure development relative to other economic activities.

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Working in an Immaterial World: Intangible Assets and the Supply and Demand for Skilled Labour

This study explores the relationship between technology and the graduate wage premium in a world characterised by the increasing importance of intangible assets.

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Productivity implications of the move to net zero

Is the move to net zero in the United Kingdom likely to be productivity-reducing or productivity-enhancing?

Framing a place-based investment strategy for Fermanagh & Omagh

Findings from the Investment in Productive Places project in Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area.

Geography & Place

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