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New report from @productivity.bsky.social worth a read! 🙌

Read the recent ESCoE discussion paper on trade and productivity in British firms by @christinavpalmou.bsky.social and Kyle Jones: tinyurl.com/5c9mazpa

Productivity and Responsible AI in Adult Social Care - The Productivity Institute This paper examines how AI can be responsibly harnessed to enhance productivity in England’s adult social care sector.

📢 New from The Productivity Institute:

Productivity and Responsible AI in Adult Social Care by Joel Hoskins & @bartvanark.bsky.social explores how AI could boost efficiency in social care - if done responsibly.

🔗 www.productivity.ac.uk/research/pro...

UK Trade and Productivity Across Space - The Productivity Institute Research examining the nexus between agglomeration economies and international trade premia and whether these two phenomena complement or substitute each other.

🌍 New from The Productivity Institute:

UK Trade and Productivity Across Space shows exporting is easier for firms in dense cities, while smaller regions face disadvantages.

Levelling up trade access could boost productivity across the UK.

🔗 www.productivity.ac.uk/research/uk-...

Do Equity Gaps Matter? Evidence from High-Growth Enterprises’ Investment Behaviour - The Productivity Institute Research highlighting the economic consequences of capital market frictions for high-growth companies.

📢 New research from The Productivity Institute:

Equity gaps hold back investment & jobs in high-growth firms - especially outside London. Closing them could boost UK productivity.

🔗 www.productivity.ac.uk/research/do-...

🔎 Compare productivity across UK regions with TPI’s new Subregional Productivity Comparator Tool. Explore regional differences & insights here: lab.productivity.ac.uk/tools/itl3-c...

For more on how it works, and what kinds of insights you can gain, read: www.productivity.ac.uk/the-producti...

Productivity Potential: Driving Change in UK Financial Services Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion exploring the future of productivity in the UK financial services sector.

Bristol event alert!

📅 Mon 6 Oct | 🕘 09:30–12:00 | 📍 EQ Bristol

Hear from:
Evanna Fitzgerald (EY) on leadership & tech in financial services
Prof Palie Smart (TPI) on productivity insights for the Southwest

Plus a panel on leadership & emerging tech.

Register events.humanitix.com/productivity...

Wow, #NHS (and social care) #productivity has never been more important, as shown here by @theifs.bsky.social report bit.ly/4mhSzkN. A couple of good papers on this by @productivity.bsky.social, in comments. #NHSProductivityCommission #dataisbeautiful

A New Approach to UK Regional Policy - NIESR Fixing UK regional policy is one of the government’s core aims. This blog explores how national missions and local delivery can improve living standards.

#WeekendReading 🔖 A New Approach to UK Regional Policy🚆🏘️

In our latest #MondayInterview, our @adrianpabst.bsky.social explored how focusing on national missions and local delivery can help improve #LivingStandards across the country 👇

@productivity.bsky.social

New in Nature: Prof Chander Velu (TPI) with Leon Lobo and Douglas Paul on GPS vulnerability and future-proofed time.

Reliable timing is vital for productivity, resilience and the digital economy.

Read here 👉 bit.ly/3IfPOmh

#Productivity #Innovation #GPS #Resilience #FutureOfWork #Nature

An Old Challenge in the New Era: How the Public Sector Can Benefit from the Age of AI - The Productivity Institute The primary barrier to successfully leveraging AI is not the technology, but a persistent lack of capabilities within public sector organisations and the wider innovation ecosystem.

🤖 AI won’t fix broken systems.
A new report for The Productivity Institute by Joel Hoskins introduces a 12-part diagnostic framework to help leaders in the public sector identify and invest in the capabilities needed to unlock AI’s value.
🔗 www.productivity.ac.uk/research/an-...

#productivity #ai

Clarifying the devolution dividend: Final Report of Investment in Places Policy Fellowship - The Productivity Institute This report presents the findings of the TPI Investment in Places Policy Fellowship Clarifying the Devolution Dividend.

🏙️ What does devolution really mean for productivity?

This report from The Productivity Institute explores how place-based powers and investment can unlock regional growth.
🔗 www.productivity.ac.uk/research/cla...

ESCoE Leadership Executive member @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and Advisory Board member @bartvanark.bsky.social speaking at the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Global Forum on Productivity today.

The @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Global Forum on Productivity kicks off in London!

📢 @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social delivered the keynote this morning
💡 @bartvanark.bsky.social and Tony Venables will set the stage for panel discussions.

Great to see TPI experts shaping the global productivity debate.

Mismatching Skills and Education - NIESR There is a need to rethink our approach to skills and education so that we can better align the education system to the demands of real-world jobs.

There is a need to rethink our approach to #skills and #education so that we can better align the education system to the demands of real-world jobs, writes our Larissa Marioni🏫🧑‍🎓🛠️⚙️👇

#Productivity
#SkillsMismatch
#UKeconomy
@productivity.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social

niesr.ac.uk/news/mismatc...

The 2025 TPI UK ITL3 Productivity Scorecard Series - The Productivity Institute By Ruby Watson, Raquel Ortega-Argilés The Productivity Lab has released the 2025 edition of The Productivity Institute’s UK...

Really interesting read @jpspencer.bsky.social.

Have you seen the data produced by the @productivity.bsky.social Data Lab?

They have a series of scorecards at:

ITL3 level (www.productivity.ac.uk/the-producti...)

and

by Combined Authority (www.productivity.ac.uk/the-producti...)

☑️ Productivity Research Conference - done!
Thank you to everyone who presented, attended, contributed and supported our two-day conference and made it such a success. If you want to hear more about our future events and research, sign up to our weekly newsletter: www.productivity.ac.uk/subscribe/

Yesterday's 'measurement and methods' session at @productivity.bsky.social's research conference featured ESCoE's Rebecca Riley, @yannisgalanakis.bsky.social and Russell Black discussing papers on economic measurement.

💭 More discussions from the afternoon sessions at the international Productivity Research Conference.

- Marianne Sensier & Alfonso Silva Ruiz from @alliancembs.bsky.social
- @joshmartinecon.bsky.social for @escoeorg.bsky.social and from the Bank of England
- Sumit Deole from @unitrier.bsky.social

Yesterday, @domignon.bsky.social presented at the Productivity Conference, organised by the Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social.

Today's afternoon sessions are underway!
Including presentations from:
- Benjamin Olomu from @salforduni.bsky.social
- Adeel Ahmad Dar from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
- @econstevem.bsky.social from @niesrorg.bsky.social

A great line-up of speakers for our parallel sessions on day 2 of the Productivity Research Conference, including:
- @ninajorden.bsky.social & @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social from @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
- Jun Du from Aston University
- Iris Smiderle from Luiss Business School

#productivity #conference

Jeffrey Anderson provides insights on place-based policymaking.

🎤 @andywestwood.bsky.social provides opening remarks and introduces Jeffrey Anderson for the keynote session.

It’s Day 2 of the Productivity Research Conference! 🧩 Professor Jeffrey Anderson from Georgetown University will deliver the keynote this morning.

It’s a full house for the conference dinner!

Poster session time at the conference! 📊📑

Further discussions at the Productivity Research Conference from Pei-Yu Yuan, Begonya Ebot, Jun Du, Myungun Kim and more.

Session in skills, training snd health at @productivity.bsky.social conference, presentation by @duranvj.bsky.social on the role on training on productivity across European countries. Training has a positive but small direct effect, but a large interaction effect with other intangibles.

The third set of parallel sessions for the day have begun! Including @mariasavona.bsky.social, @jonatanpinkse.bsky.social and Juan Durán discussing their productivity research.