Productivity Perspectives

Edited by Philip McCann, Sir Terry Leahy Chair in Urban and Regional Economics, The Productivity Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester and Tim Vorley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Hertfordshire, UK

• Contents:1 Introduction to Productivity Perspectives 1Philip McCann and Tim Vorley2 Productivity perspectives: observations from the UK and theinternational arena 18Philip McCann3 Measuring productivity 48Vania Sena4 FDI, capital and investment markets 78Richard Harris5 Innovation and productivity: a multi-perspective assessment 103Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi6 Small business growth and productivity 129Andrew Henley7 Productivity and the UK’s deficiency in scale-ups 147Colin Mason8 Human capital, skills and productivity 174Maria Abreu9 Demographic ageing and productivity 190Katerina Lisenkova10 Inequality, well-being and (inclusive) productivity growth 206Leaza McSorley11 Contemporary work and employment and the productivitypuzzle 224Kirsty Newsome and Tim Vorley12 Regional and city productivity debates: insights from workundertaken by Cambridge Econometrics 243Ben Gardiner and Richard Lewney13 Infrastructure and productivity 255Iain Docherty and David Waite14 From silos to systems: insights and implications forproductivity policy 274Tim Vorley and Jen Nelles15 Productivity policy review 293Jonathan Cook, Dan Hardy and Imogen Sprackling16 The UK productivity paradox and the governance of UKscience and technology policy: lessons from California? 324Gary DymskiIndex 363

'Productivity, what determines it and how to boost it, is one of the great challenges in contemporary economics. This book offers us a hike along the frontiers of current thinking on the productivity puzzle, guided by a team of leading researchers.'--Murray Sherwin, New Zealand Productivity Commission, New Zealand'This book rightly identifies low productivity growth as the central policy challenge of this time and brings a truly broad and diverse set of perspectives to bear on this issue, leading to many fresh insights.'--Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen, the Netherlands