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Opinion: AI can unlock productivity in public services

27 Mar 2025

AI applications have tremendous potential for improving productivity 鈥 saving time and money and improving quality of service. Here's what's required...

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Doctor examining a patient

Having a 鈥榬egular doctor鈥 can significantly reduce GP workload, study finds

23 Feb 2024

If all GP practices moved to a model where patients saw the same doctor at each visit, it could significantly reduce doctor workload while improving...

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Data Tunnel

UK needs AI legislation to create trust so companies can 鈥榩lug AI into British economy鈥

16 Oct 2023

Legislating for AI safety and transparency will allow British industry and education to put resources into AI development with confidence, argue...

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Robots on a manufacturing line

Robots cause company profits to fall 鈥 at least at first

03 Aug 2023

Researchers have found that robots can have a 鈥楿-shaped鈥 effect on profits: causing profit margins to fall at first, before eventually rising again...

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鈥楽mart鈥 drugs can decrease productivity in people who don鈥檛 have ADHD, study finds

09 Jun 2023

Smart drugs do motivate people, but the added effort can lead to 鈥渆rratic thinking鈥, adversely affecting above-average performers, according to...

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Digital manufacturing on a shoestring

24 Feb 2022

How approaches to low-cost digitalisation pioneered by Cambridge researchers are helping smaller UK manufacturers to go digital and reap the rewards...

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Beyond the pandemic: focus on productivity to make everyone better off

16 Nov 2020

There is no way out of the immediate economic hit of a pandemic, says Professor Diane Coyle, but to heal social fractures, we must focus on giving...

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Cambridge takes major role in initiative to help solve UK 鈥榩roductivity puzzle鈥

21 Aug 2020

探花直播 探花直播 is to be a key partner in a new national effort to boost British productivity, bringing together expertise to tackle questions of job...

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探花直播拢2 billion vegetable and the agricultural future of the East

15 Mar 2019

From crop science to robotics, supply chains to economics, Cambridge 探花直播 researchers are working with farmers and industry to sustainably...

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How to tend an economic bonfire

01 Mar 2019

Business, enterprise and employment are flourishing in Greater Cambridge, but housing and infrastructure are struggling to match the jobs boom, and...

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Mend the gap: solving the UK鈥檚 productivity puzzle

28 Jun 2018

When it comes to the output, education and wellbeing of the Great British workforce, our towns, cities and regions exist on a dramatically unequal...

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How emotions shape our work life

18 Jun 2018

Jochen Menges, an expert in organisational behaviour, thinks that emotions matter profoundly for employee performance and behaviour. His studies...

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