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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...
If one in five working‑age people are inactive, what does that say about the UK’s productivity problem? Why does ill health push so many peo...
If universities are engines of growth, why isn’t productivity accelerating? What’s the point of educating graduates if regions can’t keep or...
Do we need to rethink how we measure productivity in the age of digital technologies and AI? Productivity is a fundamental measure of how ef...
Why doesn’t digital technology always translate into productivity growth? What if the technology and your business model don’t quite fit? De...
Why do places matter for productivity? If productivity is local, why is policy still so centralised in the UK? Productivity varies widely ac...
Why does productivity vary so widely between NHS organisations? Can new technologies like AI and remote monitoring help the health service s...
What does it really mean to grow a place? This episode unpacks the concept of place-based productivity and explores how it differs from trad...
The Chancellor’s Budget is on the horizon. Will it bring higher taxes, deeper cuts, or more borrowing? Does the Budget really matter for pro...
Productivity is the key to economic growth and living standards. But has the productivity puzzle been solved yet? Have we been asking the ri...
This episode explores the vital link between international trade and the UK's productivity challenges. Host Bart van Ark is joined by three...
This episode explores new insights into the productivity puzzle from two fresh pieces of work. First, Diane Coyle discusses her book The Mea...
Regional growth is a key component for improving productivity growth in the UK. The gaps in productivity between English regions are unusual...
In this episode of Productivity Puzzles, we examine the productivity performance of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. How do the three d...
How do different leaders within a firm think about productivity? This can vary significantly between the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief...
2024 has been quite a year. A new government, big plans, but a growth and productivity revival isn’t visible yet. These things take time. Is...
With a new government in town, industrial strategy is back. Why now? How will it help growth and productivity? How do we get it right? And,...
Why is business model innovation the key to an organisation’s productivity? What does it take to do it right? New technologies and new busin...
The election manifestos published in the second week of June 2024 sparsely recognise the importance of productivity. This is perhaps because...
Why should firms care about productivity? How does it add to the bottom line? What exactly drives productivity? And how can you get better a...
What is the best thing government can do to help improve business productivity? Provide more business support? Create better conditions for...
What is business dynamism? Do we need a bit more turbulence in business creation, growth and change to get productivity up again? This episo...
The final episode of Productivity Puzzles Season 2 examines whether 2023 has brought us closer to putting the productivity puzzle together....
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 ne...
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...
What makes a business productive? Do businesses have a sense of what they’re good at and where to improve? This episode of Productivity Puzz...
What have policies to boost science, technology and innovation done for productivity? Which policies are most effective? Which countries hav...
How have some troubled cities overseas turned themselves around? What did they invest in? How did they organise themselves? Cities are conce...
Will artificial intelligence rescue us from the productivity demise? If humans cannot get productivity up, can intelligent machines bring ab...
Can we make the economy greener and still be productive? Or even better, can productivity help us to make the economy greener? This episode...
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...
How do Further Education Colleges contribute to the provision of skills needed for innovation and productivity in regions, cities and towns?...
There is a new UK government department for science, innovation, and technology. Will the new standalone entity turn Britain into the scienc...
What do we know about where productivity is heading? What will happen to productivity in the UK, around Europe, and even around the world? T...
Should the next Prime Minister embrace productivity as a cornerstone of the policy agenda for the new UK government in September? Can it hel...
Despite showing slow productivity growth over the past decade, the public sector has performed better than the private sector and there is q...
How can productivity benefit not just business and the economy, but also ourselves? What does it take for a society to grow productivity and...
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 econ...
Are economies making the most of their human and material resources? Through most of modern history, we've assumed that progress in technolo...
Why has economic growth slowed down? Have we already exhausted the benefits from the digital revolution? Are the trusted institutions of the...
How do we respond to uncertainties that crises create? Are they holding us back in investing, hiring and innovating? Or can crises make us m...
Why do we need new firms? How important is business creation for employment and productivity? How has the coronavirus pandemic affected the...
Productivity is key to sustained economic growth, but how does it make each of us financially better off? Do productivity gains always end u...
How do we level up regions in a sustained manner - raising productivity and living standards, and reducing inequalities? Why do institutions...
Are healthy workers productive workers? And if so, why do companies still struggle to put health and well-being at the centre of good busine...
How do we keep our shelves stocked for Christmas? Can we be sure our favourite restaurant will stay open? Does the NHS have the staff to red...
How can companies transform their business by becoming more productive? What are the things stopping us doing this? What simple practical te...
The one big question anyone working on productivity issues gets most is: how do you actually measure it? How do we count what we make? And c...
This year marks the centenary of Northern Ireland’s creation. What has it done for the economy? And in particular for the productivity of it...
Are hybrid working models good for productivity? Do employers and employees think differently about the pros and cons? And how does flexible...
In this episode Bart talks to Lord Jim O’Neill, Dame Nancy Rothwell & Professor Philip McCann about raising productivity in the Northern Pow...