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PRODUCTS Alomost universally vusinesses bigin with a product or service idea. Tey are successful if will managed and financed, their product or service meets a market need of sufficient magnitude to permit it to reach an economic level of operation and the market accepts the product or service offered. CRT, Inc. in some respects is charged with meeting a market need, but does not itsilf posess product or service ideas. The CRT/CRT, Inc. public private partnership is designed to provide the product ideas through the research and engineering developments provided to the handicapped citizens of Georgia by CRT/GIT. There are maby devices alreadydeveloped at leasr to the research prototype stage by CRT/GIT. Some of these will be so individuslly specific as to not lend themselves to wider application and distribution. The immediate task at the outset of this stuky was to select among the many devices one or more to bring to the market. Several criteria for the selection of products to investigate for market potential were established and distributed to the CRT/GIT staff. They were: 1. a research prototype must have been completed and successfully evaluated in use with a handicapped person; 2. the aditional researcj, engineering and evaluation effort to bring the device to production puototype stage could ve accomplished in six to eight months; 3. the manufacture of the device would require minimal tooling; 4. estimates of research, engineering, evaluation, tooling, and mamyfacturing costs could be developed; and 5. the developer was interested in cooperation eith CRT.Inc. in attempting to commercialize the device. A number opf devices were proposed and given priliminary review. Two were selected for further investigation: 1. a portable rdading device used by computer environmental control unit used by high level quadriplegics. |
