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

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productivity means for business

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

Research

External Publications

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We See Data Everywhere Except in the Productivity Statistics

This paper uses Labor Force Survey data for European countries to estimate national investment in data assets.

Knowledge Capital
May 19, 2022
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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
Sep 28, 2021
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Investigating the Governance Mechanisms that Sustain Regional Economic Resilience and Inclusive Growth

A review of the literature on regional economic resilience and how it interrelates with systems of governance, local sustainability and inclusive growth.

Geography & Place
Sep 16, 2021
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How not to miss a productivity revival once again

Time lags are the most important reason for the slow emergence of the productivity effects from digital transformation.

Transitions
Jul 29, 2021
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Productivity growth and business model innovation

Is the slowdown in productivity is due to the lack of business model innovation?

Knowledge Capital
Jul 20, 2021
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The persistent consequences of adverse shocks: how the 1970s shaped UK regional inequality

The highly-persistent economic shocks of the 1970s have to a large extent shaped current UK regional disparities.

Geography & Place
Jul 9, 2021
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Regional disparities, growth, and inclusiveness

Do policy attempts to reduce regional disparities necessarily involve a trade-off between equity and efficiency?

Geography & Place
Jul 9, 2021
Spaghetti junction

Why some places are left behind: urban adjustment to trade and policy shocks

Clustering by tradable sectors can make it difficult for them to shift into regions suffering trade and policy shocks.

Geography & Place
Jul 8, 2021
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The rise of self-employment in the UK: entrepreneurial transmission or declining job quality

This paper proposes a re-evaluation of the evidence on whether private sector business organisations stimulate entrepreneurial transmission amongst their employees.

Human Capital
Apr 3, 2021