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:
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 relationship between market power and productivity, which is relevant to the question, but does not address the joint effect of the UK labour market and productivity on competition.
According to the London Futures Deloitte report (Frey and Osborne, 2014), 35 per cent of the current workforce in the UK is at risk of being made redundant over the next two decades as a result of the introduction of dig...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sussex
The project explores the effects of technical change on income inequality and employment, which indirectly relates to the question's focus on labour market and productivity, but does not directly address the impact on competition.
The planned programme of research aims to address four issues: R&D, innovation and the wages of workers in low-skilled occupations An understanding of how increases in innovation and productivity feed through into t...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Institute for Fiscal Studies
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.