If you know the formula to achieve this, you indeed have a special insight. Action for Biomaterials , together with its associated online activities, has attempted to do just this mixing of disciplines. The goal is to create an exchange of ideas and opinion throughout the biomaterials community, to spark up new thinking that may lead to therapeutic advances, and to connect up the supply chains linking biomaterials concept to patient and profit. On the back page there is a listing of contributions to date. This has all been an experiment and now we need to understand the degree to which this has worked and the way you, the customer, would like to see Action for Biomaterials develop.
Individual brainstorms can be satisfying, but multidisciplinary groups and communities do it better.
These and many other scenarios have just emerged from the extensive consultations of Foresight. It can all be downloaded from the Foresight website . Even if you just want to know what is going on, check out the excellent search engine and you may well be surprised by what you discover. The UK biomaterials community, through The Biomaterials Partnership website, has contributed to Foresight. There is a virtue now in keeping this consultation going, a brainstorm marathon maybe, and the Internet is the place to do this.