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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Roadmapping Process." National Research Council. 2004. Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medicine: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11063.
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Appendix C
Roadmapping Process

BEFORE THE WORKSHOP

  • Define the scope of the roadmap

    • Define the charter, mission, system boundary, scope, and team participants

    • Identify priority focus areas: biomaterials for

      • Wound healing

      • Tissue engineering

      • Agent delivery

      • Sensor and detectors

  • Recruit leaders and experts

    • Identify all stakeholder groups

    • Military departments, product developers, device manufacturers, materials suppliers, academics, interested consortia, others

AT THE WORKSHOP

  • Hold inclusive sessions

    • Provide overviews of focus areas

      • Military medicine and its importance to missions and personnel

      • Biomedical materials, current and potential

    • Hold panel discussions

      • Describe facts, issues, challenges, opportunities

      • Differentiate between facts and assumptions

    • Conduct open brainstorming session

      • Welcome all input

      • Forecast any and all candidate technologies, projects, goals, barriers, ideas

      • Identify overarching groups of ideas, and transfer to breakout sessions

  • Hold breakout sessions

    • Refine and add to list of potential roadmap elements

      • Identify long-term goals, mid-term targets, and near-term achievables

      • Identify gaps and “showstoppers” in the existing technology

    • Time phase: near-term (0-2 years), mid-term (2-7 years), and long-term (>7 years) activities

      • Include example elements

        • When a product characteristic will be achieved

        • When a technology goal will be reached

        • When a basic research project will begin and end

        • When an applied research project will begin and end

        • When a processing or manufacturing technology will be needed

        • When a technology demonstration is warranted

        • When clinical trials will being and end

        • Others

    • Network roadmap elements

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Roadmapping Process." National Research Council. 2004. Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medicine: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11063.
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  • Identify critical paths, higher-level goals, and decision points

  • Identify fundamental research with the greatest potential for multiple impacts

  • Point out critical capabilities as focal points for R&D priority

  • Highlight specific opportunities for partners and projects, programs, and partnerships

  • Find highest risks and highest payoffs

  • Identify relevant barriers as they affect these goals and paths forward

WITH ROADMAP IN HAND

  • Critique and validate

    • Refine product and technology definitions

    • Gather data to back up any uncertainties or assumptions made in roadmapping process

    • Develop consensus on needs and actions

  • Develop implementation plan

    • Focus resources on roadmap elements with the most promise

    • Leverage resources to accomplish roadmap goals

      • Coordinate with other organizations

      • Identify common elements and synchronize time lines

  • Communicate goals and planning

    • Utilize professional societies, parallel organizations

  • Review and update as needed

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Roadmapping Process." National Research Council. 2004. Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medicine: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11063.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Roadmapping Process." National Research Council. 2004. Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medicine: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11063.
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Recent results in biomaterials R&D suggest that there are exceptional opportunities for these emerging materials in military medicine. To facilitate this possibility, the National Research Council convened a workshop at the request of the Department of Defense to help create a technology development roadmap to enhance military R&D into biomaterials technology. The workshop focused primarily on identifying useful near- and mid-term applications of biomaterials including wound care, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and physiological sensors and diagnostics. This report presents a summary of the workshop. It provides a review of biomaterials and their importance to military medicine, the roadmap, and a discussion of ways to enable biomaterials development. Several important outcomes of successful capture of potential benefits of these materials are also discussed.

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