Viability

Viability or viable may refer to:

Biology, medicine or ecology

 * Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce
 * Fetal viability, the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus
 * Genetic viability, chance of a population of plants or animals to avoid the problems of inbreeding
 * Minimum viable population, a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild
 * Population viability analysis, a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology
 * Viable count, of viable cells

Business

 * Viability study, a study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business
 * Minimum viable product, in product development, a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature

Other uses

 * Viable Paradise, an annual one-week writing workshop held each autumn on Martha's Vineyard
 * Viable system model, a scientific model by Stafford Beer of the organization of a viable or autonomous system
 * Viable system theory, a modelling approach that enables complex strategic and operative business and financial systems to be modelled and explored.
 * Viability theory, an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints to the system's state