Institutionalisation of markets: The case of personalised cancer medicine in the Netherlands

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2018-03

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Moors, EllenORCID 0000-0002-9724-5308ISNI 0000000045359886
Kukk Fischer, Piret
Boon, Wouter P. C.ORCID 0000-0003-1218-193XISNI 0000000392975288
Schellen, Frank
Negro, S.O.ORCID 0000-0002-8532-0825ISNI 0000000109578130

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Abstract The article aims to understand the institutionalisation process of markets for innovative products. To pursue this study of market formation, we analysed the introduction of innovative personalised medicines products: Herceptin® (trastuzumab) for breast cancer and Tarceva® (erlotinib) for lung cancer, which were introduced successively in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2012. We apply the technological innovation system (TIS) approach to understand the development, implementation and diffusion of new markets, including new roles for users and producers, new forms of regulation and novel user practices regarding innovative health technologies. We show that market access became institutionalised as part of the technological innovation system of the first-mover personalised medicine, i.e. the market was formed, paving the way for the later personalised medicine products.

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Market formation, Institutionalisation, Technological innovation system, Transition, Personalised cancer medicine, Taverne, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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Moors, E H M, Kukk Fischer, P, Boon, W P C, Schellen, F & Negro, S O 2018, 'Institutionalisation of markets: The case of personalised cancer medicine in the Netherlands', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 128, pp. 133-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.11.011