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The Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) carries out cutting-edge research into how to improve productivity through nurturing innovation – ideas that are new to the world – and then diffusing these ideas across the economy

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LSE Environment Week: Mon 19 - Fri 23 Sep

LSE Environment Week is an event at LSE encouraging economists from all fields of economics to work on environmental issues and to connect this work to policy change. Read more....
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The shortest economic suicide note in history?

The UK's 'mini budget' announced large tax cuts and spending. John van Reenen explains how policies for good growth are a marathon of reforms, not a mad dash for growth. Read more....
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The Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) carries out cutting-edge research into how to improve productivity through nurturing innovation - ideas that are new to the world - and then diffusing these ideas across the economy. Read more...

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Empirical Management Conference

A two-day conference on empirical management, focused on recent empirical research on measuring and exploring management and organizational practices. Read more....
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Risk of Business Failure - POID Tracker - Stalled Covid Recovery

Research shows that small firms are more likely to report they are at risk of failing in recent months, amid growing concerns about challenges such as Brexit controls, the Ukraine crisis and energy price hikes. Read more....
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Improving productivity through better management practices

Until recently, economists studying productivity lacked any robust way to quantify basic aspects of management practices until the creation of the World Management Survey. Read more....

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University Challenge - bridging the local and the global

Nicholas Stern and Anna Valero argue the need for investments in 'clean' innovation and its diffusion to drive an environmentally sustainable and inclusive approach to growth.
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The Economics of Creative Destruction

Book by POID Director John Van Reenen and Ufuk Akcigit (Chicago) based on a 4-day conference in honour of POID member Philippe Aghion and his long-time collaborator Peter Howitt.
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