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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Related UKRI funded projects
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Productivity Insights Network
UK national productivity challenges can be analysed from many different perspectives, including firm-specific, industry-specific, organisational-specific, institution-specific or technology-specific perspectives. In the ...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on productivity challenges in the UK, but does not specifically address the measurement of productivity in emerging industries that cut across current sector definitions.
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Mapping the production, diffusion and drivers of future technologies
We propose to map and track the state of technological change in the UK, understand its drivers, impacts and help to improve the UK's productivity record via our collaboration and engagement with industry and policymaker...
Funded by: SPF
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to map and track technological change in the UK, focusing on future technologies such as AI, robotics, clean tech, blockchain and quantum, which are likely to cut across current sector definitions.
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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
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.