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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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
Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield
The project provides a comprehensive analysis of productivity differences across regions, firms, and sectors in the UK, and proposes a network to address these challenges and develop policy options.
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
The project focuses on productivity in Northern Ireland, providing insights into productivity differences across firms and sectors, and suggesting policy interventions.
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman famously remarked that 'productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything'. He is referring to the idea that productivity dictates society's ability to produce more ou...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Kent
The project investigates the impact of market power on productivity, which could be a factor in productivity differences across firms and sectors.