| Jacques. Mairesse' scholarly work has been mainly in the field of production economics and panel data econometrics, focusing on measurement of capital, productivity and technical change issues. He has been engaged in various comparative studies, using firm micro data for France and the U.S. or other countries, in particular to analyze research and development (R&D) activities and their effects on productivity. His main current topics of interest are in the economics of science, innovation and knowledge, with specific emphasis on performance evaluation at various levels of analysis (individual employee or scientist, firm or laboratory, industry), and on the interaction of technical change (in particular in information and communication technology- ICT) and organizational change. |