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.

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Is Greater Manchester growing significantly? If so, why? And what can we learn?

Joe Peck, JP Spencer, Andy Westwood
  • Insights Paper

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
  • Insights Paper

British firms’ investment behaviour is informal and cautious

TPI | July 2026
  • Blog

Why do Firms (not) Invest?

Tera Allas, Stephen Roper, Catherine Mann | June 2026
  • Podcast

Supply Chain Lock-in and the Selective Destruction of EU–UK Trade

Jun Du, Oleksandr Shepotylo, Yujie Shi | June 2026
  • Working 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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