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Our nine Productivity Forums are spread across the UK acting as regional ambassadors for the importance of productivity. The Investment in Productive Places campaign helps places understand how their resources can be used more effectively.

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Maximising productivity through managing new technology

This report focuses on the relationship between the management of new technology and productivity

Productivity Studies

Productivity Primer

This primer aims to define productivity, how it can be best understood for firms and places and how it contributes to inclusive growth.

Productivity Studies

A framework for understanding transformation FDI

Exploring the potential for inward investment into the UK to contribute to reducing regional inequality.

Organisational Capital

The UK’s Foreign Investment Position post Brexit and COVID: Briefing 4

Exploring how adopting a more strategic approach to attracting inward investment could enhance its role in improving regional equality, with an emphasis on productivity as the main driver of prosperity.

Organisational Capital

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Do UK Research and Collaborations in R&I Promote Economic Prosperity and Levelling-up? An analysis of UKRI funding between 2004-2021

Analysing the impact of public funding on UK research-related investments and its contribution to regional development and interregional convergence.

Productivity Studies

Climate Change and Productivity: Exploring the Links

This paper provides a conceptual overview of the different measures of productivity that are relevant to climate change.

Productivity of tax collection in the UK, 1850 to 2019

This research estimates the productivity of tax collection and administration in the UK from 1850 to 2019.

Measurement & methods

Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap: The role of Board Gender Composition

This project examines the impact of the corporate board gender composition on pay-related outcomes within UK companies.

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Measuring the value of free digital goods

Estimating the value of free digital goods within the national income accounting framework.

Measurement & methods

Productivity and Investment: Time to Manage the Project of Renewal

A report on productivity and investment from the Productivity Commission.

Productivity Studies

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