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How can we measure productivity of emerging industries that cut across current sector definitions?

Background

BEIS plans to boost productivity and improve lives by tackling society’s Grand Challenges in life sciences, artificial intelligence, automation and space. By investing in R&D and innovation, we will unleash potential and work towards making the UK a science superpower. To do this, BEIS needs research to better understand:

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Beis areas research interest interim update 2020

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  • Queen's University Belfast - NISRA BDR Programme (Propelling Growth in Northern Ireland: Measuring and Explaining Business Productivity)

    Our research will contribute to this existing literature by providing a more detailed picture of Northern Irish productivity. We identifying where opportunities exist for policy to raise productivity and efficiency acros...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on productivity in Northern Ireland, but does not specifically address the measurement of productivity in emerging industries that cut across current sector definitions.

  • Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge

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    Innovation is undoubtedly an important driver of long-run economic growth. Relatively recent innovations such as the PC or the Toyota manufacturing system offer clear evidence for a close link between innovation effort i...

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  • The Productivity Institute

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    Funded by: UKRI

    Lead research organisation: University of Manchester

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