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Histoire d'une innovation: le cas d'un médicament

Laurent Bibard

Revue Économique, 1991, vol. 42, issue 2, 273-300

Abstract: [fre] Histoire d'une innovation. Le cas d'un médicament. . L'économie du changement technique élargit depuis quelques temps son domaine d'investigation. La prise en compte de situations empiriques complexes implique dans cette perspective d'adopter une approche ethnographique pour mettre en lumière la création de nouvelles configurations de production et de distribution de ressources rares. On présente ici l'étude d'une innovation technique dans le domaine des anticorps monoclonaux. L'innovation résulte du travail de valorisation commerciale, par un chercheur en biologie, de la découverte d'un nouvel outil de laboratoire. On montre comment ce travail contribue in fine à établir les conditions concrètes de l'émergence et de l'irréversibilisation d'un réseau technico-économique inédit dans le secteur des biotechnologies de la santé. [eng] The history of an innovation : the case of a drug . . For some time now, the investigation field covered by the economics of technical change has been expanding. Within this perspective, an ethnographical approach, applied to complexe empirical situations, is required to highlight the creation of new configurations for the production and dixtribution of scarce resources. In this article, we present the study of a technical innovation in the area of monoclonal antibodies. This innovation is the resuit of a biological researcher efforts to give a commercial value to the new discovery of a laboratory tool. We show how these efforts contribute in the end to establishing the concrete conditions for the emergence and « irreversibilization », in the area of biotechnolgies, of a new technico-economic network.

Date: 1991
Note: DOI:10.3406/reco.1991.409278
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