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Technology transfer offices (TTOs) at universities are one of the most underappreciated parts of the US innovation ecosystem. They’re also underexplored and deserve more research. Here’s a short thread with 4 ideas of what I mean (and a request for more!):

Stanford Econ inaugural student/faculty soccer match! 3-3! Everyone's happy!

People want to move & so do their ideas, according to research from Stanford University Economics PhD students Kate Reinmuth (2022 cohort) and Emma Rockall. How things are about to change for the vast majority of workers under the FTC's new rule: knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/news/times-non…

This coming Tuesday and Wednesday (July 16-17), Adam Jaffe, Ben Jones and I are co-organizing the NBER Summer Institute Productivity/Innovation meeting: nber.org/conferences/si… All of the talks will be live-streamed here: youtube.com/nbervideos

Greater enforceability of non-compete agreements significantly reduces innovation and inventor mobility. An average-sized increase in enforceability leads to a 13% decrease in patenting accompanied by a 22% decrease in inventor mobility. conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2…

The high rate of turnover in Trump's first WH is often blamed on his hiring based on loyalty rather than competence. But as Kate Reinmuth and I show, that wasn't the case. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #TrumpWhiteHouse

Trump's most recent hires confirms my earlier post. This time around, he's focused on demonstrated loyalty first. As Kate Reinmuth and I showed, he was less successful at this during his first term, primarily because he had not cultivated a political network. #TrumpAppointments

Ekow N. Yankah In a Note, Kate Reinmuth (SLS ’25) examines how incomplete contracting between merchants can harm third-party consumers, such as by reducing patients’ ability to access essential drugs. stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/…