'Market Devices' addresses the crucial role of technical instruments in the construction of markets and explores how market devices are set to configure economic calculative capacities while observing the part they play in the marketability of goods and services.

The first edition of Silicon Germanium Materials & Devices - A Market & Technology Overview to 2006 examines the development of the silicon germanium business over a six-year period 2001 to 2006. It analyses the trends in markets, technologies and industry structure and profiles all the major players. It is specifically aimed at users and manufacturers of substrates, epiwafers, equipment and devices. The analysis includes a competitive assessment of the market of silicon germanium vs. gallium arsenide, indium phosphide vs. other forms of silicon. Silicon Germanium Materials & Devices - A Market & Technology Overview to 2006 is designed to assist with business plans, R&D and manufacturing strategies. It will be an indispensable aid for managers responsible for business development, technology assessment and market research. The report examines the rapid development of silicon germanium from an R&D curiosity to production status. An extensive treatment from materials through processes to devices and applications it encapsulates the entire silicon germanium business of today and assesses future directions. For a PDF version of the report please call Tina Enright on +44 (0) 1865 843008 for price details.

This report examines the development of the diode laser industry over a six-year period, 2000 to 2005, incorporating analysis of trends in markets, technologies and industry structure. It is designed to provide key information to users and manufacturers of substrates, epitaxial wafers (epiwafers) and devices. The coverage includes components, laser diodes, and the semiconducting (SC) wafers and epiwafers on which most of these devices are made. The geographical coverage of the report includes North America, Japan and Europe, which together will account for over 90% of the production and consumption of diode laser materials and devices over the next five years. However, many other countries have activities in this field including South-East Asia (Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia etc), China, India, Australia and Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic) amongst others. Activities in these countries are commented on in the text where relevant, but are not quantified in the market data. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the market study. Chapter 2 contains an executive summary. Chapter 3 overviews materials markets. The size, quality, and particularly the price, of substrates and wafers are key factors in determining the ability of companies to produce competitive laser products. Chapter 3 also examines trends in materials technologies for laser diodes, the impact of the device markets on wafer demand, and the main suppliers. This chapter introduces the semiconductor materials that are presently or will likely become important to the fabrication of diode laser devices. The principal distinguishing properties of these materials are explained with reference to their application. Chapter 4 chapter examines the basic application sectors for laser diode devices as well as the basic commercial opportunities, changes and forces acting within each sector. The chapter also examines the market for the basic types of device as well as the promising newer types. For each type of device, market data and forecasts are provided and future prospects described. The application data are presented for the following industrial groups: • Automotive • Computers • Consumer • Industrial • Military and Aerospace • Telecommunications • Others A full 5-year forecast and analysis is provided by application and region. Chapter 5 is a technology overview. In this chapter a background and overview of developments in the principal technological R&D and production processes for devices is provided. The main focus is on the most important enabling technology for the production of the present and future generations of laser diodes and related devices. This process is crystal growth and involves the following sequence: • Bulk growth of single crystals • Epitaxial growth of semiconductor single crystal layers • Ion implantation • Device fabrication, ie gate and contact formation, etc • Packaging & test Chapter 6 profiles substrate suppliers, epiwafers suppliers and merchant and captive producers of GaAs devices. Chapter 7 lists universities and selected industrial labs involved in the areas of diode laser research. Chapter 8 is a directory of suppliers. Chapter 9 provides acronyms and exchange rates.

The Market Research Report on MEDICAL DEVICES & SURGICAL DISPOSABLES IN INDIA (Disposable Plastic Syringes, Blood Bags, X-Ray, Ultrasound, ECG, Pacemakers, IV Fluid Sets and Other Devices) Present & Future Prospects, Market Analysis, Statistics, Trends & Opportunities, Growth Drivers, SWOT Analysis, Industry Size, Outlook and Forecasts Upto 2017’ released by Niir Project Consultancy Services, provides a comprehensive analysis on the medical device industry in India. The report begins with the global scenario of the medical device industry including market size forecasts till 2017 and eventually unwraps with the Indian scenario of the medical device and surgical disposable industry. The report elucidates the structure of Indian medical device industry, its classification in various risk classes and its segmentation into various sub-segments. Key segments include diagnostic imaging, dental products, disposables, orthopedic & prosthesis, IV diagnostics and patient aids. The reports also names various sub segments of the above mentioned segments. The report provides an expansive market analysis of the Indian medical device sector by covering areas like growth drivers, trends prevailing in the industry, regulatory framework as well as comprehensive SWOT analysis of the sector. The report provides an elaborative analysis of the factors which are and will be driving the growth of the industry. Such factors include burgeoning medical tourism in the country, vigorous growth of the hospital sector, increasing government focus towards medical device sector, India’s increasing life expectancy, rising health awareness among the Indian population as well as the rise in the incidence of lifestyle diseases in the nation. The trends prevalent in the industry as identified by the report includes increased inflow of investments in the sector, growing merger & acquisition activity, rise in demand of refurbished medical devices and new found focus on increasing the manufacturing base of such devices in the country. Industry players nowadays are expanding and focusing more on affordable manufacturing of medical devices in order to tap the rising demand from tier-II and tier-III cities. The report further establishes the regulatory framework of the industry. It encapsulates the status of the current legislation in the industry as well as the recent changes and developments in the regulations. The industry is awaiting the much anticipated approval of the Drugs & Cosmetics (Amendment) Bill, 2013 which will stabilize the regulatory environment for the industry. The report also contains key features of such above mentioned bill and enumerates various governing bodies of the sector. The report further explicates the SWOT analysis of the sector. The sector is placed in a sweet spot due to ready availability of abundant market base for its products in the form of rising Indian population. Additionally, Indian population distribution has been experiencing a gradual tilt towards the 25-59 & 60+ age groups which forms the key customers for the sector. Healthcare industry in India is a recession proof industry to some extent and medical device sector being a part of such industry benefits immensely from its growth as well as its relatively recession proof nature. The industry faces many challenges in the form of increasing competition in the sector, low penetration of healthcare in the nation, lack of funding and lack of required skill set. Despite such challenges, India is a sea of opportunities for the sector owing to the rising disposable incomes of the people which will lead to better healthcare penetration, rising government expenditure on the healthcare sector as a whole and low consumption of medical devices in the nation. The next segment of the report details the market potential of various sub segments of the sector. It includes demand analysis and key forecasts of X-Ray equipment, ultrasound equipment, disposable syringes, disposable blood bags, pacemakers, IV fluid sets and ECG equipment also. Further the report provides information on companies like Wipro GE Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd and Opto Circuits (India) Ltd. The report shares vital information like shareholding pattern and financial summary of the key companies. The next segment provides complete financial comparison of medical device companies in India and buyers of medical devices (Hospitals). It covers contact information like address of registered office, key financials like plant location, raw material consumption and financial comparison covering balance sheet, profit & loss account and financial ratios. The industry has managed to reduce its dependency on imports and has expanded its manufacturing base owing to the towering demand experienced for affordable devices. The growth of healthcare sector in India will be a major boost for the device market. Rising incidence of lifestyle diseases due to changing lifestyles of Indian population and lack of physical exercise will be another feather in the hat. Other factors that will contribute to its glory are favorable demographics, increasing government focus on the sector, rapid spread of the health awareness and India emerging as the medical tourism hub of the world. On the back of the above mentioned factors the size of the Indian medical device industry will jump to INR 761 billion by 2017 registering a CAGR of 20% during 2012-17. Reasons for Buying this Report: • This research report helps you get a detail picture of the industry by providing overview of the industry along with the market structure and classification • The report provides market analysis covering major growth driving factors for the industry, latest market trends and regulatory framework of the industry • This report helps to understand the present status of the industry by elucidating a comprehensive SWOT analysis and scrutiny of the demand situation • Report provides analysis and in-depth financial comparison of major players/competitors • Report provides indispensable buyers data with their company financials as well as the contact details, which can be an important tool in identifying the target customers. • The report provides forecasts of key parameters which helps to anticipate the industry performance Our Approach: • Our research reports broadly cover Indian markets, present analysis, outlook and forecast for a period of five years. • The market forecasts are developed on the basis of secondary research and are cross-validated through interactions with the industry players • We use reliable sources of information and databases. And information from such sources is processed by us and included in the report TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. OVERVIEW 1.1 Global Medical Device Industry 1.2 Indian Medical Device Industry 1.2.1 Classification of the Industry 2. MARKET ANALYSIS 2.1 Industry Growth Drivers 2.1.1 Burgeoning medical tourism 2.1.2 Growth of the hospital sector 2.1.3 Rising Health Awareness 2.1.4 Escalating Incidence of Lifestyle Diseases 2.1.5 Rising Life Expectancy 2.1.6 Increased Government Focus 2.2 Emerging Trends in the Industry 2.2.1 Refurbished Equipment 2.2.2 Increasing Investments 2.2.3 Rising Mergers & Acquisitions 2.2.4 Focus on Affordable Manufacturing 2.3 Regulatory Framework & Government Initiatives 2.3.1 Status of Regulations 2.3.2 Governing Bodies 2.4 SWOT Analysis 2.4.1 Strengths 2.4.1.1 Ready Market Base 2.4.1.2 Favorable Demographics 2.4.1.3 Part of the Recession Proof Industry 2.4.2 Weaknesses 2.4.2.1 Improper Legislation 2.4.2.2 Lack of Funding and R&D 2.4.2.3 Lack of Trained Personnel 2.4.3 Opportunities 2.4.3.1 Growing Disposable Incomes 2.4.3.2 Government Spending on Healthcare 2.4.3.3 Low Medical Device Penetration 2.4.4 Threats 2.4.4.1 Competition 2.4.4.2 Low Healthcare Penetration 3. MARKET POTENTIAL 3.1 ECG Equipment 3.2 Disposable Syringe 3.3 Disposable Blood Bags 3.4 X-Ray Equipment 3.5 Ultrasound Equipment 3.6 IV Fluid Sets 3.7 Pacemakers 4. KEY PLAYERS 4.1 Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd 4.2 Opto Circuits (India) Ltd 4.3 Wipro GE Healthcare Pvt Ltd 5. KEY FINANCIALS & ANALYSIS 5.1 Players in the Segment 5.1.1 Contact Information 5.1.1.1 Registered Office Address 5.1.1.2 Director’s Name 5.1.2 Key Financials 5.1.2.1 Plant Location 5.1.2.2 Raw Material Consumption 5.1.2.3 Plant Capacity & Sales 5.1.3 Financial Comparison 5.1.3.1 Assets 5.1.3.2 Liabilities 5.1.3.3 Growth in Assets & Liabilities 5.1.3.4 Structure of Assets & Liabilities 5.1.3.5 Income & Expenditure 5.1.3.6 Growth in Income & Expenditure 5.1.3.7 Profits 5.1.3.8 Liquidity Ratios 5.1.3.9 Profitability Ratios 5.1.3.10 Return Ratios 5.1.3.11 Working Capital & Turnover Ratios 5.2 Buyers of the Industry’s Product 5.2.1 Registered Office Address 5.2.2 Financial Comparison 5.2.2.1 Assets 5.2.2.2 Liabilities 5.2.2.3 Income & Expenditure 6. INDUSTRY SIZE & OUTLOOK LIST OF FIGURES & TABLES Figure 1 Global Medical Device Industry- Market Size (2006-17, In USD Billions) Figure 2 Indian Medical Device Industry- Structure Figure 3 Indian Medical Device Industry- Segmentation Figure 4 Medical Tourist Arrivals in India (2005-15E, In Nos.) Figure 5 Indian Hospital Sector- Market Size (2008-17, In USD Billions) Figure 6 Health Insurance Premium (FY08-13, In INR Billions) Figure 7 Per Capita Health Expenditure (2006-11, In USD) Figure 8 World Diabetics Statistics (In Millions) Figure 9 Percentage of Population with Lifestyle Diseases Figure 10 Population Distribution of India Figure 11 Private Equity Deals in Indian Medical Device Sector (FY08-14) Figure 12 Population of India (2008-17E, In Millions) Figure 13 Population Growth of 60+ years in India Figure 14 Indian Healthcare Industry- Market Size (2008-17, In USD Billions) Figure 15 India's Annual Per Capita Income (2008-13, In INR) Figure 16 Plan Outlay for Health Sector in 5 Year Plans (In INR Billions) Figure 17 Per Capita Expenditure on Medical Devices in Various Countries (In USD) Figure 18 Beds Per 1000 Population Figure 19 Demand for ECG Equipment in India (2008-17, In Units) Figure 20 Indian ECG Equipment Market- Industry Size (2008-17, In INR Millions) Figure 21 Demand for Disposable Syringes in India (2007-17, In Billion Nos) Figure 22 Demand for Disposable Blood Bags in India (2007-17, In Million Nos.) Figure 23 Demand for X-Ray Equipment in India (2009-17, In Units) Figure 24 Indian X-Ray Equipment Industry - Market Size (2008-17, In INR Millions) Figure 25 Demand for Ultrasound Equipment in India (2009-17, In Units) Figure 26 Indian Ultrasound Equipment Industry- Market Size (2009-17, In INR Millions) Figure 27 Demand for IV Fluid Sets in India (2007-17, In Million Bottles) Figure 28 Demand for Pacemakers in India (2007-17, In Nos.) Figure 29 Opto Circuits (India) Ltd- Shareholding Pattern (Dec 2013) Figure 30 Medical Device Industry in India- Market Size (2008-17, In INR Billions) Table 1 Classification of Medical Devices in India Table 2 Private Equity Investments in Indian Medical Device Sector (FY14) Table 3 Domestic Mergers & Acquisitions in the Sector Table 4 Outbound Mergers & Acquisitions in the Sector Table 5 List of Notified Medical Devices Table 6 Acquisitions by Opto Circuits (India) Ltd Table 7 Opto Circuits (India) Ltd- Financial Summary (2011-13) Table 8 Opto Circuits (India) Ltd- Segmental Performance (2010-13, In INR Millions) Key Words Market Research Reports, India and Global Industry Analysis, Market Trends, Market Insight, Market structure, Sector outlook, Indian Industry Size, Share, Trends, Analysis and Forecasts, sector Growth Driver, demand, supply, production, company profiles, market potential, X-ray equipment, ECG equipment, disposable syringes, disposable blood bags, ultrasound equipment, pacemakers, IV fluid sets, diagnostic imaging, dental products, surgical disposables, orthopedic & prosthesis, patients aids, Hindustan Syringes & Medical devices Ltd, Opto Circuits (India) Ltd, Wipro GE Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Sutures India, life expectancy, aging population, favorable demographics, healthcare industry, hospital sector, government focus, Drugs & Cosmetics (Amendment) Bill, 2013, low risk, high risk, life saving, mergers & acquisitions, per capita healthcare expenditure, refurbished equipments, low consumption of medical devices, medical technology, consumables, lifestyle diseases, market size, medical tourism, disposable incomes, health insurance premium, diabetics, imports, indigenous manufacturing, CDSCO, separate regulation Short: http://goo.gl/3BtPxU The Market Research Report on MEDICAL DEVICES & SURGICAL DISPOSABLES IN INDIA (Disposable Plastic Syringes, Blood Bags, X-Ray, Ultrasound, ECG, Pacemakers, IV Fluid Sets and Other Devices) Present & Future Prospects, Market Analysis, Statistics, Trends & Opportunities, Growth Drivers, SWOT Analysis, Industry Size, Outlook and Forecasts Upto 2017’ released by Niir Project Consultancy Services, provides a comprehensive analysis on the medical device industry in India. The report begins with the global scenario of the medical device industry including market size forecasts till 2017.

Slicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced. If you’re convinced you know what a market is, think again. In his long-awaited study, French sociologist and engineer Michel Callon takes us to the heart of markets, to the unsung processes that allow innovations to become robust products and services. Markets in the Making begins with the observation that stable commercial transactions are more enigmatic, more elusive, and more involved than previously described by economic theory. Slicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of market activity that emphasizes what people designing products or launching startups soon discover—the inherent difficulties of connecting individuals to things. Callon’s model is founded upon the notion of “singularization,” the premise that goods and services must adapt and be adapted to the local milieu of every individual whose life they enter. Person by person, thing by thing, Callon demonstrates that for ordinary economic transactions to emerge en masse, singular connections must be made. Pushing us to see markets as more than abstract interfaces where pools of anonymous buyers and sellers meet, Callon draws our attention to the exhaustively creative practices that market professionals continuously devise to entangle people and things. Markets in the Making exemplifies how prototypes, fragile curiosities that have only just been imagined, are gradually honed into predictable objects and practices. Once these are active enough to create a desired effect, yet passive enough to be transferred from one place to another without disruption, they will have successfully achieved the status of “goods” or “services.” The output of this more ample process of innovation, as redefined by Callon, is what we recognize as “the market”—commercial activity, at scale. The capstone of an influential research career at the forefront of science and technology studies, Markets in the Making coherently integrates the empirical perspective of product engineering with the values of the social sciences. After masterfully redescribing how markets are made, Callon culminates with a strong empirical argument for why markets can and should be harnessed to enact social change. His is a theory of markets that serves social critique.

"Each chapter in this book describes the general concepts that frame a given subject area and addresses some of the basic administrative, regulatory, and compliance concerns that arise in the context of bringing a medical device to market"--

Addressing the exploding interest in bioengineering for healthcare applications, this book provides readers with detailed yet easy-to-understand guidance on biomedical device engineering. Written by prominent physicians and engineers, Medical Devices: Surgical and Image-Guided Technologies is organized into stand-alone chapters covering devices and systems in diagnostic, surgical, and implant procedures. Assuming only basic background in math and science, the authors clearly explain the fundamentals for different systems along with such topics as engineering considerations, therapeutic techniques and applications, future trends, and more. After describing how to manage a design project for medical devices, the book examines the following: Instruments for laparoscopic and ophthalmic surgery, plus surgical robotics Catheters in vascular therapy and energy-based hemostatic surgical devices Tissue ablation systems and the varied uses of lasers in medicine Vascular and cardiovascular devices, plus circulatory support devices Ultrasound transducers, X-ray imaging, and neuronavigation An absolute must for biomedical engineers, Medical Devices: Surgical and Image-Guided Technologies is also an invaluable guide for students in all engineering majors and pre-med programs interested in exploring this fascinating field.

Marketing Performativity: Theories, practices and devices addresses concerns about the theory-practice gap so often discussed by marketing scholars, and indeed reframes this ‘gap’ by asking ‘how is marketing theory performative?’ How does marketing theory shape action? Who uses it in practice and to what effects? The individual contributions in this book look at how marketing theories are used in practice and what this means for our understanding of the practicing–theorising landscape of marketing. The book begins by considering what performativity is and how this concept is used in the marketing literature. It then considers three themes concerning the performativity of marketing that emerge from the contributions, before presenting ten empirical studies that ask how, why, and to what effect marketing theories are used and ‘performed’ in marketing practice. The book also summarises the implications of three themes and sketches research areas for further developing our understanding of the performativity of marketing. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Management.

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship, how it adapts to non-Western religious traditions, and how it reconfigures legal and ecological dimensions of social organization, and urban social relations in general. Central themes include the indebtedness of individuals and households, the impact of digital technologies, the struggle for housing, financial education, and political contestation.