Suma Athreye is Professor of Technology Strategy at Essex Business School, London. She has worked on several areas of technology management, including research on the technology-related activities of multinational enterprises, as well as the technology licensing behaviour of firms. Her recent work has been on the incentive effect of patents on firm profits and R&D, the role of technology leadership in encouraging patenting in open innovation contexts and more recently on the barriers to the use of formal protection methods among UK firms. Source: [About the author](https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/law/intellectual-property/harnessing-public-research-innovation-21st-century-international-assessment-knowledge-transfer-policies#bookPeople)