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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 447-465Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2340
Keywords
market for ideas; market for technology; open innovation; health care; innovation strategy
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Prior work argues that the market for ideas supports an open system of innovation, allowing for efficient development of technology across firms. Although this literature has described important features of this market, how it influences the rate and direction of innovation remains an open question. We exploit an exogenous shock to a subset of U.S. medical device firms to study this question. We first document the breakdown in the market for ideas after a federal investigation made it more difficult for the leading orthopedic firms to work with physician-inventors. We then present evidence of a dramatic decline in the rate of innovation for these firms. Further, a marked shift in direction occurs toward lower-quality inventions and away from product categories where physician knowledge is critical. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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