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Biosensor commercialization strategy – a theoretical approach

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1 Graduate Institute of Management Science, Ming Chuan University, 250, Chung Shan North Road, Section 5, Taipei 111, Taiwan, ROC
2 St. John’s & St. Mary’s Institute of Technology, 499,Tam King Road, Section 4, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2005, 10(1), 99–106; https://doi.org/10.2741/1512
Published: 1 January 2005
Abstract

Biosensors are analytical devices, which use biological interactions to provide either qualitative or quantitative results. They are extensively employed in many fields such as clinical diagnosis and biomedicine, military applications, anti-terrorism, farm, garden and veterinary analysis, process control, fermentation control and analysis, pharmaceutical and drug analysis, food and drink production and analysis, pollution control and monitoring, microbiology, bacterial and viral analysis, mining, and industrial and toxic gases. The biosensor market has significantly increased and will be mushrooming in the next decade. The total biosensor market is estimated to be $10.8 billion dollars by 2007. The emerging biosensor market presents both opportunities and obstacles to start-up biosensor entrepreneurs. The major challenge and threat for these entrepreneurs is how to predict the biosensor market and how to convert promising biosensor technology into commercialized biosensors. By adopting a simple commercialization strategy framework, we identify two key elements of biosensor commercialization strategy: excludability and complementary asset. We further divide biosensor commercialization environments into four distinct sub-environments: the Attacker's Advantage, Reputation-Based Idea Trading, Greenfield Competition and Ideas Factories. This paper explains how the interaction between these two key elements shapes biosensor commercialization strategy and biosensor industry dynamics. This paper also discusses alternative commercialization strategies for each specific commercialization environment and how to choose from these alternatives. The analysis of this study further provides a good reference for start-up biosensor entrepreneurs to formulate effective biosensor commercialization strategy.

Keywords
Biosensor market
Biosensors commercialization
Commercialization strategy
Commercialization environment
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