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:
This project will examine some of the key reasons for the relatively poor productivity of selected parts of the service sector comparing the UK with the USA. The distinctive feature of this work is to try to model the re...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
The project partially answers the question as it focuses on the role of management practices in productivity within firms, but does not cover other aspects like employee interaction, diffusion of ideas, and working practices.
This project will examine some of the key reasons for the relatively poor productivity of selected parts of the service sector comparing the UK with the USA. The distinctive feature of this work is to try to model the re...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Nottingham
The project focuses on the role of management practices in productivity, but does not fully address other factors like employee interaction, diffusion of ideas, and working practices.
Our Management and Expectations Survey (MES), cited in the ESRC call, arose from a partnership between the ONS and ESCoE: it is the largest ever survey of UK management capabilities, executed on a population of 25,000 fi...
Funded by: UKRI
Lead research organisation: King's College London
The project investigates management practices and their impact on productivity, but does not fully cover all aspects of the question such as how firms interact with each other and the diffusion of ideas.