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This challenge focuses on which types of institutions are best placed to support the development of management and entrepreneurship in small firms, by acting as an anchor institution in the local area.
We're seeking evidence on firm-level factors that may improve productivity for the long tail of low productivity businesses.
Research exploring the feasibility of a productivity based approach for evaluating business support interventions.
The Business Basics Programme tests ways to encourage small and medium sized businesses to adopt productivity-boosting technologies and management practices.
Experimental statistics on firm-level productivity, business dynamism and business markup estimates drawn from the Annual Business Survey (ABS) and Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), showing how the economy has changed over the period 1997 to 2021.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
The Business Basics Programme was designed to test innovative ways of encouraging small and medium sized enterprises to adopt existing technologies and management practices to improve their productivity.
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) carried out a rapid literature review of behavioural factors and best practice business prompts to encourage businesses to improve productivity.
New AI Opportunity Forum to ramp up adoption of AI in the private sector.
A report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies on the effects of the 2008 to 2009 recession on firms' productivity, investment and training.
A series of reports looking at the productivity and competitiveness of the farming industry
This article uses firm-level data from the Annual Business Survey (ABS) and the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) to analyse labour productivity trends and distributions among businesses in the non-financial business economy. The coverage of businesses in this article includes Great...
Updated experimental statistics on business' labour productivity using representative data from the Annual Business Survey. Includes high-level breakdowns by industry, region, size and ownership.
The Business Basics Fund supported projects that tested methods of encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to boost their productivity through ways of working and technology.
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