While the global stent market has matured, China continues to be an exciting country for the drug eluting stent (DES) manufacturers. The DES market in China has been growing by at least three to four times faster than the Global DES market in the past few years. The high growth opportunities presented by the market in…
The buzz on Near Field Communication (NFC) has been around for quite some time. Many companies and organizations from the Semiconductor, Banking, and Mobile Phone industries have been experimenting with the technology through numerous pilot projects over the years. Various issues such as inadequate infrastructure and lack of cooperation among merchants have been deterrents to…
Digitization has played an evolutionary role in the way we consume information. Just as emails and e-books have replaced letters and books, paper maps have been replaced by the more convenient and slick Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A GIS essentially integrates hardware, software, and data to capture, manage, analyze, and display all forms of geographically…
In the late 18th century, Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist overheard a milkmaid say ”I shall never have smallpox for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly pockmarked face.” This had helped him understand that the cowpox virus countered the smallpox virus, and thus, the first human vaccine was born….
A recently held conference in New Delhi, ‘Cloud Computing India 2012’, hailed cloud computing as a tool that can help India grow by providing its citizens with access to information. While the potential business impact of cloud computing has been a popular topic among information and technology experts, it also demands them to speculate the…
The spectacular rise of smartphones continues. Last year, Apple alone sold 90 million iPhones, a staggering increase from the 10 million it sold in 2008. In 2006, 30% of all mobile phone users used their phones to surf the Internet; in 2009 this number was more than 70%. So is the smartphone becoming a modern…
Radical development in the industrial sector globally has led to the advancement of scientific instruments necessary for new inventions. Intense competition among emerging economies such as India and China has led them to increase their R&D spends on scientific instruments to lead the way in scientific innovations. The Indian government is ramping up its R&D…
The Medical Devices market is one of the largest in the Healthcare industry (after Pharmaceuticals). It has a number of branches such as orthopedic instruments, medical equipment, diagnostic aid, medical supplies, and surgical instruments. The increasing demand for healthcare services across the globe is driving the growth of the medical devices market and making it…
With a population of over a billion people and a current GDP growth rate of about 8 percent, India is certainly one of the fastest growing countries in the world. Despite its robust economic growth, the country is still plagued by basic problems such as shortage of electricity, with nearly 40 percent of its rural…
A new study has been released from TechNavio last month titled: ‘Global Computational Fluid Dynamics Market in Aerospace and Defense Industry 2010-2014’ Our analysts forecast the Global Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) market in the Aerospace and Defense industry to grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 12.7 percent over the period 2010–2014….
