This paper takes as its unit of analysis the disclosure of an invention by an academic scientist to the university technology transfer office and examines the factors that lead some inventions to be licensed by firms while others are not. The analyses show that inventors' academic output, as...

One of the alleged benefits of the recent global movement to strengthen intellectual property rights (IPRs) is that such reforms accelerate transfers of technology between countries. The paper examines how technology transfer among U.S. multinational firms changes in response to a series of IPR...