Market failure in the diffusion of clinician-developed innovations: The case of off-label drug discoveries

Medical doctors occasionally discover potentially valuable new off-label uses for drugs during their clinical practice. They apply these to help their own patients, but often have minimal incentives to invest in diffusing them further. Thus, the benefits that other clinicians might obtain are to som...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: von Hippel, Eric A., DeMonaco, Harold, de Jong, Jeroen P. J.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109473
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7235-1032