Understanding the joint effect of the UK labour market (e.g. flexibility, mobility) and productivity on competition (within firms, between firms, and dynamically e.g. level of innovation)
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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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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Why might this be relevant?
The project investigates the relationship between skills, productivity, and human capital, which is relevant to the question, but does not directly address the joint effect of the UK labour market and productivity on competition.