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

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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Macroeconomic Perspectives on Productivity

Surveying UK productivity performance over the long run across countries and focus on the sharp slowdown since the global financial crisis.

Macroeconomic trends & policy

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The UK’s Foreign Investment Position post Brexit and COVID: Briefing 2

Focusing on the regional variations in aggregate changes in inward FDI in the UK, the uneven spatial distributions of investments, and the implications for productivity.

Organisational Capital

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Reflections on the National Productivity Year of 1962

What were the context, aims and legacy of the National Productivity Year IN 1962 and what does it mean for today’s productivity debate?

Productivity Studies

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Between a rock and a hard place: Trade offs between prosperity and inclusivity when implementing regional growth policies

Providing initial data to explore the relationship between prosperity and inequality growth at a UK regional level.

Organisational Capital

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Adoption of Quantum Technologies and Business Model Innovation

This study aims to better understand the enablers and barriers of business model innovation in order to accelerate quantum technology adoption.

Knowledge Capital

Environmentally-adjusted productivity measures for the UK

Recasting core economic measures of productivity and and GVA in a social welfare rather than purely private goods perspective using GSG emissions and other pollutants.

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Northern Ireland Productivity Dashboard 2022

This dashboard measures how Northern Ireland performs across key drivers of productivity, relative to the UK average and other regions, and over time.

Productivity Studies

Potential Capital, Working from Home and Economic Resilience

Investigating the spontaneous and unprecented deployment of 'potential capital' caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Knowledge Capital

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Investigating the factors driving Scotland’s productivity gap with international countries

Examining productivity drivers in Scotland relative to other European regions since the beginning of the 2000s.

Geography & Place

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Fuller measures of output, input and productivity in the non-profit sector: a proof of concept

Exploring the framework and a roadmap for best measuring productivity in the Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households (NPISH) sector.

Measurement & methods

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