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Businesses are crucial to solving
the UK’s productivity problems.

Research

Transitions

Transitions

Coming decades will see major transitions as the UK adopts new technologies and responds to climate change. There are both opportunities and risks for productivity, jobs and the distribution of the gains emerging from digital transformation and green growth. These transitions will require transformative changes in business models, skills needs, infrastructure, regulatory policies and markets.

Theme lead

Professor Jonatan Pinkse

Co-Investigators

Professor Bart van Ark
Professor Frank Geels
Professor Bridgette Wessels

Theme Paper

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

Driving change in UK housing construction: a Sisyphean task?

This research identified five primary issues that limit the use of MMC as a way to improve productivity in housing construction.

A electric car which is charging with wind turbines in the background

A socio-technical transition perspective on positive tipping points in climate change mitigation

Developing a socio-technical perspective on positive tipping points, using case studies of offshore wind and electric vehicles

Fickle Fossils. Economic Growth, Coal and the European Oil Invasion 1900-2015

Analysing the effect of coal and oil on long-run economic growth, exploiting variation at the level of European NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 regions, including the UK, over the last century.