Biomaterials
Technology Map Detailed Contents
March 2023
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
Abbreviations