Draft:The Productivity Institute

The Productivity Institute is an ESRC funded research Institute headquartered at Alliance Manchester Business School and established in September 2020. It is a partnership between the universities of Cambridge, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Warwick, Kings College London, Queen's Belfast and NIESR and ESCOE. It also has strong links with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and the Enterprise Research Centre. The Institute has over 40 academic co-investigators who research UK and International productivity. In November 2023 it published "The Productivity Agenda" a blueprint for boosting the UK's productivity and the Institute also organised and co-ordinated National Productivity Week, the first UK wide awareness campaign around productivity since 1963. In 2021 it established 8 Regional Productivity Forums to look at the UK's regional productivity disparities. The forums represent the 3 devolved nations and 5 English regions.