Market In New Stem Cell Market Landscape

Market and Technology Analysis

 8 june , 2016

A 10,000-Foot View of the Stem Cell Market Landscape

The Various Segments that Comprise the Stem Cells Field and Their Dynamics

 

Perhaps the nearest-term impact of stem cells is in research efforts and the life sciences research field. 

Figure 1. Overall growth of the stem cells landscape

The stem cell marketplace is complex, with many distinct segments and associated application areas.  We sought to understand this marketplace by analyzing the entire stem cell publication landscape and then dissociating the publications into the various market segments.  In this manner, the contribution of the individual market segments to the total marketplace can be assessed.
The data presented in this article was collected in May 2016 and therefore reflect the current state of this evolving field.

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  Figure 2A. Comparing the CAGR of the various stem cell classes

  We harvested all the data focusing on stem cells from the PubMed database and focused our attention on the period 2012 to 2016-year-to-date (2016YTD), which comprised 125,692 publications in total.  Figure 1 shows the growth of this field as measured by the number of academic publications.
  The overall compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the period 2012-2015 is 5.39%.  Given the overall growth of this field, we sought to segment out the stem cell field based on the various stem cell classes and compare the relative growth rates of the publications (by capturing the publications en bloc for a given stem cell class is a proxy for the growth of the given segment).  Figure 2A presents the data for the years 2011 to 2016-year-to-date.
  
• The data presented in Figure 2A provide a side-by-side comparison of the evolution of the stem cell field and illustrate the varying growth in the different stem cell classes.  Figure 2B presents a pictorial representation of the data with the purpose to illustrate the relative sizes of the various segments (measured by the height of the bars in Figure 2B).  Indeed, as would be expected the largest segment in the stem cells field are the hematopoietic stem cells classes given the long history of studies of this stem cell class (hematopoietic stem cell transplantations have a 40+ operating history).
  Pluripotent and mesenchymal stem cells also are relatively large market segments.  Taken together, the data from Figures 2A and 2B characterize the growth rate and relative size of the various stem cell markets respectively.