Is the UK’s recent productivity recovery a sign of lasting improvement? How could AI, technology adoption and shifting global economic conditions shape the country’s future productivity?
This episode of Productivity Puzzles explores the challenges facing the UK economy, from weak technology diffusion and widening gaps between firms to trade, competitiveness and the priorities needed to support long-term productivity growth.
Host Professor Bart van Ark is joined by:
- Professor Jun Du, TPI Managing Director and Professor of Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School
For more information on the topic:
- Bart's farewell blog: https://www.productivity.ac.uk/news/productivity-place-and-the-power-of-alignment-reflections-on-six-years-at-tpi/
- Jun's introductory blog: Productivity when nothing stands still - The Productivity Institute
- Jun Du, Look inside, look around, look beyond: Look inside, look around, look beyond: From productivity gaps to adaptive capacity - The Productivity Institute
- Jun Du, The options are familiar. The world around them is not: The options are familiar. The world around them is not. - The Productivity Institute
- Bart & Dirk's pro-productivity policy book/project: Pro-Productivity Policies - The Productivity Institute
- Bart's recent frontier/diffusion paper: Rewiring Europe’s Productivity Framework: Aligning Investment, Innovation, and Diffusion - The Productivity Institute
- The Manchesterism publication: The Manchester Model: what foreign inward investment reveals about the UK’s most productive city outside London - The Productivity Institute
- Link to the ONS paper: Measuring labour productivity: our new approach | National Statistical
About Productivity Puzzles:
Productivity Puzzles is brought to you by The Productivity Institute, a research body involving nine academic institutions across the UK, nine Productivity Forums throughout the nation, and a national independent Productivity Commission to advise policy makers at all levels of government. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Productivity Puzzles
Join Bart van Ark, Professor of Productivity Studies at the University of Manchester, and the managing director of The Productivity Institute as he brings you discussions with leading minds from the UK and abroad about how to improve productivity for almost everything: from health care to car manufacturing, at national and regional levels, for business and for your own personal productivity.
This podcast series investigates why UK productivity is lower than in many other countries and why are there such large differences in productivity across and within the regions and devolved nations. We’ll also get the best insights from research on smart policies and effective business practices to increase productivity and find out how this will drive prosperity, wellbeing and inclusive sustainable growth.
Productivity Puzzles is brought to you by The Productivity Institute, a research project involving nine academic institutions across the UK, eight regional productivity forums throughout the nation, and a national independent Productivity Commission to advise policy makers at all levels of government.
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