Juan Ramón Larraín Aylwin - (OECD, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities), Author at COGITO

Juan Ramón Larraín Aylwin - (OECD, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities)

Juan Ramón Larraín Aylwin is an Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), where his work focuses on SME policy, digitalisation and the green transition. Before joining the OECD, he worked on development economics and policy research at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and held economic and policy roles in the Chilean public sector. Juan Ramón holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, a Master’s Degree in Economic Analysis and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Chile.

Reading Time: 3 minutesAI is spreading through the UK economy, but not quickly enough. Recent UK evidence shows that around one in three firms with fewer than 50 employees adopted AI, compared with almost two in three larger businesses, while regional adoption ranged from 32% in the North East to 67% in London. What can government do to close these adoption gaps?