Lab-on-a-chip technology has been long envisaged to have tremendous commercial potential, owing to the ability of such devices
to encapsulate a full range of laboratory processes in a single instrument and operate in a portable manner, rapidly and at low cost.
Devices are believed to have potential in fields ranging across medical diagnostics, environmental sampling and a range of
consumer products, however, to date very few devices have attained commercial success. This review examines the challenges
relating to the commercialization of lab-on-a-chip technology from fundamental research to mass manufacturing and aims to
provide insight to both academics and product development specialists the perceived hindrances to commercialization and a
strategy by which future work could be translated into commercial success.