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We’re a UK-wide research organisation exploring what productivity means for business, for workers and for communities – how it is measured and how it truly contributes to increased living standards and well-being.

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NewsAug 31, 2022

Guide to making public sector productivity practical released

Boost could create a higher quality of service and a happier workforce as well as reducing tax burdens and supporting fiscal responsibility.

NewsAug 23, 2022

Can public services improve their productivity without new funding?

How to connect our knowledge about concepts, measurement, drivers and barriers to productivity growth in the public sector with practical insights into how to improve.

InsightsAug 23, 2022

Regional Productivity Forum webinar now available to watch online

Members of our eight of the Forums discusses productivity in business, digital transformation and the four-day work week.

NewsAug 1, 2022

First Productivity Commission report launched

Report shows UK’s poor productivity performance costs each worker £5,000 a year

NewsJun 24, 2022

Green growth and net zero policy in the UK: some conceptual and measurement issues

A discussion of some of the fundamental issues related to the future growth of productivity under net zero climate change policies.

Working papersJul 26, 2022

Changing times: Incentive regulation, corporate reorganisations, and productivity in Great Britain’s gas networks

Two separate productivity analyses are undertaken to examine the effects of changes of regulations and ownership in the GB gas industry.

Working papersJul 20, 2022

Levelling Up: The Need for an Institutionally Coordinated Approach to National and Regional Productivity

The UK’s endemic regional-national productivity problems cannot be addressed by the UK’s current institutional and governance set-up.

Insight papersJul 4, 2022

Accounting for the slowdown in UK innovation and productivity

A comprehensive sources-of-growth analysis for the UK non-farm market sector, 2000 to 2019, using the latest ONS data.

Working papersJun 27, 2022

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Making Public Sector Productivity Practical

B. van Ark (2022) REPORT
The UK’s Foreign Investment Position Post Brexit And Covid: Briefing 1

N. Driffield, X. Yuan, F. Gutierrez Barragan (2022) REPORT
Green growth and net zero policy in the UK: some conceptual and measurement issues

V. Ajayi, M. G. Pollitt (2022) WORKING PAPER 024
Changing times: Incentive regulation, corporate reorganisations, and productivity in Great Britain’s gas networks

V. Ajayi, M.G. Pollitt (2022) WORKING PAPER 023

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Research Projects

Human capital, innovation and competitiveness in the UK’s leading firms

D. Grimshaw, M. Miozzo
Addressing the Net-Zero and productivity challenges: How could the housing sector play a key role?

J. Pinkse
Innovation, internationalisation and productivity

S. Roper, J. Du
The UK Productivity-Governance Puzzle: Are the UK’s Governing Institutions Fit for Purpose in the 21st Century?

D. Richards, A. Westwood, M. Kenny, P. Diamond
UK regional productivity level and growth: from the micro to the macro

G. Mion

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