“Productivity isn’t everything, but in
the long run, it’s almost everything”

National Productivity Week is an initiative to raise awareness of the importance of productivity and its impact on the economy, society and the environment, uniting key stakeholders across the UK.

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The Productivity Institute

The Productivity Institute is a UK-wide research organisation exploring what productivity means for business, for workers and for communities – how it is measured and how it truly contributes to increased living standards and well-being.

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The Productivity Institute is hosting National Productivity Week to encourage business leaders and policy makers to talk about the one thing that the UK’s future prosperity depends on – productivity.

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The Productivity Institute has ten academic partnerships across the UK – Cambridge University, Cardiff University, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, University of Glasgow, King’s College London, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Queen’s University Belfast, The University of Sheffield, The University of Manchester and The University of Warwick.

Our interdisciplinary world-class research draws on expertise from social sciences, engineering, physics, political science, business management, innovation research and data science.

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Productivity research is one of Economic and Social Research Council’s most important priorities. The Productivity Institute is one of a number of research investments funded by the ESRC investigating productivity.

Programme on Innovation and Diffusion

Carrying out cutting-edge research into how to improve productivity through nurturing innovation – ideas that are new to the world – and then diffusing these ideas across the economy.

Led by London School of Economics and Political Science

Diversity and Productivity: from Education to Workforce

Understanding the relationship between diversity, inclusion and productivity in the UK and provide new insights in to the barriers to under-represented groups. It also explores the role of the education system.

Led by London School of Economics and Political Science

Economic Productivity & Environmental Performance

Exploring how to shape industrial best practices and influencing decisions around industrial policy associated with productivity and de-carbonisation by illustrating the effects of servitisation.

Led by Aston Business School, Aston University

Productive and Inclusive Net Zero (PRINZ): Opportunities and barriers in the transition to sustainable and equitable growth

Exploring the link between productivity and two important government priorities – phasing out greenhouse gas emissions (Net Zero) and improving economic prospects at the regional level (Levelling Up).

Led by Imperial College London

PrOPEL Hub

Working to influence workplace stakeholders and policymakers on how best to transform well-being and productivity through management practice. A network across all of the UK in partnership with the CIPD.

Led by University of Strathclyde

Mental health and wellbeing practices, outcomes and productivity: a causal analysis

Addressing the link between employee mental health and well-being and productivity outcomes by identifying the practices firms should adopt to support good mental health and well-being.

Led by University of Warwick

Understanding how constraints on access to finance and under-investment impact on productivity growth in smaller firms

Building a picture of the problems that small firms face accessing investment capital and increasing their productivity to help design new policies for policymakers and business.

Led by the University of Derby

Productivity Insights Network

A network of researcher, policymakers, intermediaries and businesses working to identify, advance and implement new insights to address the UK productivity puzzle. The project ran from 2018-2021.

Led by Sheffield University

Diversities and the performance of UK firms and cities

Exploring the economic effects of diverse teams and workplaces – and the wider role of urban diversity – on entrepreneurship, innovation and productivity in the UK.

Led by University College London

Productivity, Wages and the Labour Market

Understanding the interaction between skills, jobs and career progression, their combined role in driving inequalities in economic outcomes and their consequences for productivity.

Led by Institute for Fiscal Studies
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