Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• Enabling Components
  • Metals
  • Ceramics
  • Polymers
  • Composites
  • Biological Materials
  • Nanomaterials
• Biocompatibility
• Systems and Processes
• Applications

Commercial Development Parameters

• Demand Factors
• General Constraints
• Synergistic Technologies
• Competing Technologies
• Required Resources
• Regulatory Factors

Areas to Monitor

• Bioelectronic Medicine
• Biocompatibility Systems
• Simple and Complex Drug-Delivery Systems
• Implant Evaluation
• Materials Development
• Regenerative Medicine
• Regulation and Safety Issues

Implications of Commercialization

• Using Tissue Engineering to Create Replacement Organs
• Achieving Finely Tuned Drug Delivery
• Rebalancing Homeostatic Mechanisms
• Developing More Effective Long-Term Nonbiological Implants

Opportunities

• Dentistry
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities
• Tissue Engineering
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities
• Dressings and Wound Closure
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities
• Orthopedics
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities
• Other Implants
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities
• Implantable Drug-Delivery Devices
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities

Updates

Viewpoints Features

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