Skills, Innovation, and Productivity: Further Education Colleges and Place
How do Further Education Colleges contribute to the provision of skills needed for innovation and productivity in regions, cities and towns? How do they identify what businesses need, and how do they ...
16 Mar 202353min
Science and Innovation Policy for Hard Times
There is a new UK government department for science, innovation, and technology. Will the new standalone entity turn Britain into the science superpower that it hopes to become? Will the new departmen...
16 Feb 202354min
Global and European Productivity Outlook 2023-2030
What do we know about where productivity is heading? What will happen to productivity in the UK, around Europe, and even around the world? This episode takes a forward-looking perspective on future pr...
19 Jan 202353min
The Productivity Policy Agenda: Short-Term Priorities and Long-Term Commitments
Should the next Prime Minister embrace productivity as a cornerstone of the policy agenda for the new UK government in September? Can it help to get us through the economic winter ahead of us, and ont...
1 Sep 20221h
Making Public Sector Productivity Practical
Despite showing slow productivity growth over the past decade, the public sector has performed better than the private sector and there is quite a bit of scope for further improvement. This instalment...
20 Jul 202249min
Productivity and well-being
How can productivity benefit not just business and the economy, but also ourselves? What does it take for a society to grow productivity and raise well-being? Can digital technology make us happier, a...
6 Jul 202250min
The Wales Productivity Challenge
Did you know that the manufacturing sector in Wales accounts for a larger share of the economy than elsewhere in the UK? That the Welsh economy is also developing exciting new activities in arts and c...
15 Jun 202252min
Can productivity rescue the global economic recovery?
Are economies making the most of their human and material resources? Through most of modern history, we've assumed that progress in technology and efficiency will make every person employed and our wo...
11 Mai 202229min
