Viability is the ability of a thing (a living organism, an artificial system, an idea, etc.) to maintain itself or recover its potentialities. 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 See also Viability assay, an assay to determine the ability of cells or tissues to maintain or recover its viability Via (disambiguation)