Introduction to Special Issue: Innovation and Productivity Performance in the UK

Background The productivity gap between the UK and its major competitor nations ‐ the US, France and Germany ‐ has been a major concern and fixture in the UK’s domestic economic policy agenda through the 1990s (and before). Successive governments have explored various ways in which this productivity gap might be

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