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Market Formation in a Global Health Transition

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, ISSN: 2210-4224, Vol: 40, Page: 40-59
2021
  • 11
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 53
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 181,068
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    11
  • Captures
    53
  • Social Media
    181,068
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      181,068
      • Facebook
        181,068

Article Description

Transition studies have started to focus on market formation in innovation systems. This article investigates market formation in a global health transition that was instigated by drug-resistant malaria. We explore how markets for Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACT) in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) were formed at multiple geographical scales and locations. The study reveals the role of public institutes, academia and partnerships in early innovation system development. It demonstrates how transnational organizations created a supportive global landscape for ACT development and deployment. It then reveals how these advancements led to the formation of public-sector and private-sector ACT markets in the GMS. We illustrate how market formation activities took place on global, national and local scales and how structural couplings enabled the functioning of this global innovation system. The lessons learned are particularly relevant now that drug-resistant malaria has once more emerged in the GMS, urgently calling for new therapies and associated end-user markets.

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