Workstream 1 - Systems
Research in this workstream has focused on system-level impacts on labour markets, exploring skills, infrastructure and investment flows across regions and at the national scale.
We are at a critical juncture in the structural transformation of the UK economy - and in building a world-leading responsible and thriving innovation ecosystem. This interactive report provides the first panoramic overview of the scale and trajectories of the technological transformation, offering a deeper understanding of the innovation ecosystem beneath headline national statistics. This approach not only enables exploration of the likely drivers and trajectories of transformation, but also each region’s readiness for it, helping policymakers to identify regional bottlenecks and strengths, and access the most impactful points for policy intervention.
We want researchers, policymakers and the wider public to be able to look at the data we have collated to answer their own questions. To achieve this, we have developed the Disruption Index Dashboard through which users can look for themselves at how indicators of Technological Transformation and Readiness vary across the regions of England over time.
This Technical Report presents the scope of measurement and the methodology underpinning the construction of the Disruption Index project.
This policy briefing outlines IFOW’s initial findings from the full Disruption Index report (see below) and the key implications for policy and practice.
The Disruption Index (DI) is a tool designed to measure the capacity of regions to invest in new technologies and the factors that enable firms to adopt and integrate new technologies. here.
A job cannot usually be distilled into a single skill but instead involves the application of several complementary or synergistic skills to perform its required tasks. These relationships are implicitly recognised by employers in the skills they demand when recruiting new employees. In this new report for the Pissarides Review, the research team at Imperial College have constructed a skills network based on their co-occurrence in a national level data set of 65 million job postings from the UK spanning 2016 to 2022.
This work allows for new analyses of the co-occurrence of skills that go beyond expert categorisation alone, highlighting the ranges of skills that are being demanded over time, and the ways in which individual skills and clusters of skills are connected across the skills network.
Analysing data from millions of job ads, this report - published jointly with the Centre for Economic Performance - explores how demand for skills is changing, how this demand varies across occupations, and what the implications are for education and training.
Joint report with the Economy 2030 Inquiry - also funded by the Nuffield Foundation - and the Centre for Economic Performance, into how best to situate skills in an economic strategy.