Market assessment of the development of a novel system for bio-fabricating tissue scaffolds

组织支架是由生物材料制成的三维结构，用于修复或替换受损的组织或器官，包括外周神经损伤、脊髓损伤、骨关节炎、心肌梗死和中风。用活细胞制造支架或生物制造组织支架已被证明具有挑战性;用于支架生物制造的现有系统或工具具有若干限制或问题。为了应对这一挑战，我们打算开发一种用于生物制造组织支架的新系统或工具，从而支持和加强对组织工程应用的支架研究。作为一项试点研究，该项目旨在对这一发展进行市场评估。市场研究的结果将证实，新系统对生物制造研究社区和行业具有直接的技术和经济价值或利益，并有助于制定未来的商业化战略。市场研究的结果还将提供一种有效的手段，以加强拟议系统的新颖性，并在此基础上，确定有关系统开发和系统制造的脚手架设计的新知识产权。

Tissue scaffolds are three-dimensional structures made from biomaterials and used to repair or replace damaged tissues or organs, including peripheral nerve injuries, spinal cord injuries, osteoarthritis, myocardial infarction, and stroke. Fabrication of scaffolds with living cells or bio-fabricating tissue scaffolds has proven challenging; existing systems or tools for scaffold bio-fabrication have several limitations or issues. To rise this challenge, we intend to develop a novel system or tool for bio-fabricating tissue scaffolds, thereby supporting and enhancing research on scaffolds towards tissue engineering applications. As a pilot study, this project is aimed at performing a market assessment of this development. The results from the market study will confirm that the novel system has immediate technological and economic merit or benefits to the bio-fabrication research community and industry and help develop a commercialization strategy for the future. The results of the market study will also provide an effective means to strengthen the novel aspects of the proposed system and, on this basis, identify new intellectual property with regards to both the system developed and the scaffold designs fabricated by the system.