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Technology Review investigates the slow process of microfluidics commercialization

By Lily | Published: December 21, 2009
Today Technology Review came out with a great article speculating why the commercialization of microfluidics has been so slow. In “Shoveling Water: Why does it take so long to commercialize new technologies?” David Rotman uses Fluidigm as a case study and adds a twist by applying ideas from W. Brian Arthur’s The Nature of Technology, [...]
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Microfluidics and the hunt for the killer app

By Lily | Published: July 27, 2009
In microfluidics, the search for a killer app has been on since the early 90s. Although some microfluidic products have successfully appeared on the market (e.g. inkjet printheads), microfluidics hasn’t taken the world by storm as fast as people thought it might. Over the years, leaders in the field have speculated about a potential killer [...]
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