Viability

Viability or viable may refer to:

Biology, medicine or ecology

• Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce
• Fetal viability, the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus
• Genetic viability, chance of a population of plants or animals to avoid the problems of inbreeding
• Minimum viable population, a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild
• Population viability analysis, a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology
• Viable count, of viable cells

Business

• Viability study, a study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business
• Minimum viable product, in product development, a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature

Other uses

• Viable Paradise, an annual one-week writing workshop held each autumn on Martha's Vineyard
• Viable system model, a scientific model by Stafford Beer of the organization of a viable or autonomous system
• Viable system theory, a modelling approach that enables complex strategic and operative business and financial systems to be modelled and explored.
• Viability theory, an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints to the system's state

See also

• Viability assay, an assay to determine the ability of cells or tissues to maintain or recover its viability
• All pages with titles containing "viable" or "viability"
• Via (disambiguation)