Economic and Social Research Council
Economic and Social Research Council

The Institute’s key research themes are led by ten academic partners spread across the UK.

Our nine Productivity Forums are spread across the UK acting as regional ambassadors for the importance of productivity. The Investment in Productive Places campaign helps places understand how their resources can be used more effectively.

Investment in Places

Businesses are crucial to solving the UK’s productivity problems.

Working closely with policymakers.

Read and listen to our up-to-the-minute productivity output.

We’re a UK-wide research organisation exploring what productivity means for business

World-leading productivity research

Our mission is to support a step-change in the quality and quantity of productivity research available in the UK.

Find out more

UK-Wide Growth and Development: Insights from the ‘Manchester Model’

Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés | June 2026
  • Insights Paper

The Manchester Model: what foreign inward investment reveals about the UK’s most productive city outside London

Jun Du, Xiaocan Yuan, Diane Coyle | June 2026
  • Insights Paper

Ambitious but risk averse: UK manager attitudes and the investment gap

Tera Allas and Stephen Roper | June 2026
  • Report

Framing a place-based investment strategy for Newport

Marianne Sensier, Kate Penney, Michael Francis, Alfonso Silva Ruiz, Abhi Sharma, Philip McCann | June 2026
  • Insights Paper

Understanding productive investment decisions

Eugenie Golubova, Stephen Roper | May 2026
  • Report

The role of pro-productivity policies: The experience of Ireland

Dermot P. Coates and Martina Lawless | May 2026
  • Insights Paper

Highlights from the Lab

The Productivity Laboratory is our data science centre of excellence, the “engine room” for collecting, disseminating, and producing productivity data.

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Productivity Forums

Our 9 Productivity Forums represent the English regions and devolved nations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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