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Northern Ireland’s Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues

An in-depth look at the productivity challenges in Northern Ireland, part of a series looking at regional issues throughout the UK.

Productivity Studies

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Inward investment and UK productivity

How and why foreign direct investment can improve productivity and how this affects policymaking.

Organisational Capital

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Incentive regulation, productivity growth and environmental effects: the case of electricity networks in Great Britain

An analysis of the productivity growth of electricity transmission and distribution networks in Great Britain and how changes in incentive mechanism have influenced the measured total factor productivity.

Knowledge Capital

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Understanding productivity: Organisational Capital perspectives

The theme paper for TPI's Organisational Capital research theme; focusing on the three ways of improving firm level productivity in a given environment.

Organisational Capital

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Leveraging the benefits of location decisions into performance: A global view from matched MNEs

Examining how firms leverage their resources, through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) decisions, into profits growth.

Organisational Capital

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The Productivity Institute Annual Review 2020-21

Re-visit The Productivity Institute's first year in its Annual Review.

Productivity Studies

UK’s Industrial Policy: Learning from the past?

The impacts of the deficiencies of the industrial policymaking landscape in the UK, and how that contrasts with other advanced economies.

Knowledge Capital

Artificial intelligence and productivity: an intangible assets approach

Can artificial intelligence (AI) raise productivity? Does conventional productivity analysis miss the contribution of AI?

Knowledge Capital

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Productivity Growth and Capital Deepening in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Will the Covid-19 pandemic be sufficiently disruptive to deliver fundamental transformation, resulting in improved economic performance and more stable political and social arrangements?

Robots on a yellow backgroun

Productivity opportunities and risks in a transformative, low-carbon and digital age

The theme paper for TPI's Transitions research theme; how low-carbon and digital transitions are likely to deeply transform the productivity of economies and societies in the coming decades.

Industrial units and wind turbines

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