Bedfont Scientific Ltd, Station Road, Harrietsham, Maidstone, Kent, ME17 1JA, UK.
J Breath Res. 2011 Sep;5(3):032001. doi: 10.1088/1752-7155/5/3/032001. Epub 2011 Sep 6.
Breath research is now well established and is solving some of the applications in the area of identifying volatiles for medical diagnosis. This paper looks at how this research has been taken to an end-user market. It is not intended to be an indepth study of the science but simply to draw attention to the role of the commercial link between the researcher and end-user. This market is not only in research but exists in hospitals, clinics, sports medicine and even homecare. The link between research and the end-user market is a vital one to avoid breath analysis being the tool of researchers only. The ubiquitous use of breath analysis depends upon it. This is a review of some of the success stories in commercializing the important breath analysis research that has been conducted over the last few decades. In order to make breath analysis the new blood test, products that have end-user appeal need to be developed and routes to market established.
呼吸研究现在已经相当成熟，并在医学诊断中识别挥发性物质的应用领域解决了一些问题。本文探讨了这项研究如何进入终端用户市场。本文并不打算深入研究该科学，而只是想引起人们对研究人员和终端用户之间商业联系的关注。这个市场不仅存在于研究领域，还存在于医院、诊所、运动医学甚至家庭护理领域。研究与终端用户市场之间的联系至关重要，以避免呼吸分析仅仅成为研究人员的工具。呼吸分析的广泛应用取决于这一点。本文回顾了过去几十年中商业化重要呼吸分析研究的一些成功案例。为了使呼吸分析成为新的血液检测方法，需要开发具有终端用户吸引力的产品，并建立市场渠道。
