Productivity

Productivity is driven by innovation and social and economic organisation. It is a dry, technical term for the transformational changes in technology and society experienced in so many countries since the first Industrial Revolution.

Yet there has been a long-term slowdown in productivity growth, and greater inequality in the distribution of its benefits in terms of income and access to opportunity. How can policy affect the drivers of innovation, and how should governments be thinking both about regulating technology and harnessing it for public services?

Research projects – Productivity