Revisiting the UK productivity puzzle: national and regional perspectives
Is the UK Productivity Puzzle anywhere closer to being solved? Where do we see progress? And what are the pieces of the jigsaw that still need to be found? This episode of Productivity Puzzles, releas...
30 Nov 20231h 14min
Why does the UK do so well on the Global Innovation Index?
How do we measure innovation and compare it across countries? And how can it be that the UK is doing so well as an innovation nation, while we seem to be underperforming on productivity? This episode...
9 Nov 202354min
What makes firms productive? Lessons learned from across G7 economies
What makes a business productive? Do businesses have a sense of what they’re good at and where to improve? This episode of Productivity Puzzles looks at the Productive Business Index produced by Be Th...
12 Okt 202351min
Science, Technology, Innovation and Pro-Productivity Policies
What have policies to boost science, technology and innovation done for productivity? Which policies are most effective? Which countries have been most successful in using them? This episode of Produc...
31 Aug 202347min
Turnaround Cities: Lessons learned for the UK
How have some troubled cities overseas turned themselves around? What did they invest in? How did they organise themselves? Cities are concentrations of economic activity where businesses tend to loca...
27 Juli 202350min
Artificial Intelligence and Productivity
Will artificial intelligence rescue us from the productivity demise? If humans cannot get productivity up, can intelligent machines bring about the productivity revival? While certainly not the only d...
29 Juni 202353min
Greening Productivity
Can we make the economy greener and still be productive? Or even better, can productivity help us to make the economy greener? This episode of Productivity Puzzles examines what climate change and the...
25 Maj 202352min
Can We Make the Four-Day Week Work?
Is the five-day work week becoming something of the past? Does working less make us and the organisations that we work for better off? Could it even make us more productive? This episode explores the...
27 Apr 202352min
