Productivity Puzzles
Hosted by Bart van Ark and Professor Bart van Ark · The Productivity Institute
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- 57
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 7
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Productivity Puzzles
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 from the UK and abroad about how to improve productivity for almost everything: from health care to car manufacturing, at national and regional levels, for business and for your own personal productivity. This podcast series investigates why UK productivity is lower than in many other countries and why are there such large differences in productivity across and within the regions and devolved nations. We’ll also get the best insights from research on smart policies and effective business practices to increase productivity and find out how this will drive prosperity, wellbeing and inclusive sustainable growth. Productivity Puzzles is brought to you by The Productivity Institute, a research project involving nine academic institutions across the UK, eight regional productivity forums throughout the nation, and a national independent Productivity Commission to advise policymakers at all levels of government. Find out more about at www.productivity.ac.uk (http://www.productivity.ac.uk) The Productivity Institute is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (https://esrc.ukri.org/about-us/strategy-and-priorities/productivity/).
- Publisher
- The Productivity Institute
- Category
- business · education · government
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 May 2021
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 57 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Will It Take to Raise UK Productivity?
30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Productivity Impetus from Generative AI
25 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
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What Will It Take to Raise UK Productivity?
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I think it's really crucial to think about UK not in the same way as we think about China and US. UK, like many other middle power, middle size, it is highly open, therefore depending on trade, both imports and exports, to get the resources we need to produce and to provide services, but also relying on market access to allow us to access to a larger market, therefore to have competitive scale. uk is also different from other middle-sized economies like canada or germany where service intensive so therefore we not only depend on international trade we depend on the terms of dealing transacting with other countries to guarantee the services can flow and can be productive so therefore around international trade investment technology and knowledge flow becomes quite crucial And that is where international trade space plays a huge role. […]
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Bart van Ark and Professor Bart van Ark host the show. Published by The Productivity Institute.
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