Advanced technologies and systems deliver maximum gains when fully integrated and deployed on large farms.
Envia Systems, a high profile lithium-ion battery start-up, has become embroiled in a bitter and revealing set of lawsuits, one filed by a start-up called NanoeXa, and another filed by former Envia management.
China’s light-emitted diode (LED) lighting market will more than double to $7.4 billion in 2017 from $3.1 billion, as ongoing urbanization, local energy savings targets, and price cuts make the technology more appealing.
Solar electricity will reach cost parity in 10 major regions, accelerating adoption without subsidies, and will even benefit from abundant natural gas
Even though commoditization afflicts much of the solar industry, innovations can yield double-digit profit margins in high-performance encapsulants, backsheets and metallization
Improved enzyme technology will also be critical to making bio-based fuels and chemicals from cellulose competitive with those from corn and sugarcane.
The U.S. is the leading nation in publications, but Asia has emerged the top region and Seoul the top local cluster
Deep retrofits have the potential to unlock $1 trillion in energy savings, but innovative material companies need to link up with ESCOs to participate
Investment declines 24% after a 12-year boom turned mining equipment into a $1 trillion market, but will rebound to due to technical and regulatory challenges.
Stationary storage developers, hit by tumult in the grid storage market, will achieve supply-demand balance in the decade as they carve out an $896 million niche in 2020.
Conductive polymers will increase their share, reaching $1.9 billion in 2020, as device makers seek more cost-effective ways to dissipate heat
Innovative companies use technology scouting to identify prospective partners and bring external technologies into the company – but scouting outside innovators can also point to compelling new growth areas and novel market opportunities.
Led by transportation, the niche power solution will grow at an 18% CAGR, as novel electrode materials drop cost and boost performance
Advanced silicon technologies will still be leading in cost per watt, maintaining market share, though none will hit the U.S. Department of Energy targets.
With health care fast focusing on prevention to address high treatment costs, materials have emerged as key enablers for advanced diagnostics.
Bulky form factor, poor battery life, and questionable utility hobble today’s smart watches – innovations in batteries and displays are needed to make them truly functional
A chaotic consolidation, fraught with uncertainties, will still provide new opportunities in the Chinese market for new investors and global firms.
Corporations will need to integrate open source with traditional patents for biotech innovations in medicine, renewable materials, and nutrition.
Enhanced oil recovery methods being developed by start-ups and established players alike can also more than double output at most oilfields
Earlier this week, technology billionaire Elon Musk revealed his ideas for "hyperloop," a speculative new mode of high-speed transportation.
Hydrophobic, self-healing, and even air-cleaning coatings will have a big impact in medical, aerospace, and construction
Low-cost distributed sensors and diagnostics are growing in importance in the new paradigm as companies innovate to tackle spiraling health care costs and improve therapeutics.
Dominated by grid installations, this market segment will be a boon to energy storage producers but have only a modest impact on the solar market.
New entrants with cost-effective technologies are emerging to meet the growing demand for real-time monitoring in order to optimize energy consumption
Consumer electronics is by far the largest market, 89% of the total, while emerging piezoelectric actuators become the dominant technology.
CommScope’s acquisition of Redwood Systems marks a new era in lighting, which will evolve from replacement bulbs to a durable building material.
Though growth is slowing in mature markets, smart strategies and unique products can tap sky-high growth rates in emerging economies
Many alternative fuels technologies remain uneconomical today, with return on investment of over 17 years, but emerging technologies will drive down costs
Technologies like crop genomics and precision agriculture will help surmount challenges from climate change, falling yield growth, and growing demand
GaN-on-Sapphire remain the entrenched incumbent; leading challenger GaN-on-silicon will gain only a 10% market share
Advances in formulation and delivery will help pharmaceutical firms modify proven drugs by targeting molecules now off-patent, besides developing fifth-generation drugs designed to activate stem cells to fight diseases such as cancer
Promising new emerging technologies for 3D printing, disease-resistant crops, solar-powered oil production, and Alzheimer’s diagnosis highlight Lux Research’s Q2 2013 list
Devices with wide bandgap semiconductors will offer the greater competitive advantage in microinverters and small string inverters
Start-ups with creative business models are beating multinationals to the punch in powering lights for the global 1 billion living off-grid
Metals will be the biggest segment at $12.8 billion as geographically diverse demand offers rare opportunities for innovation and product differentiation
While commercial offices are often the main target for BSI, Lux Research analysis finds that other types of facilities will provide better return on investment for central control of building systems
After two years of turmoil the solar industry is set to rebound, and surviving stakeholders have a fresh new outlook that’s ripe for investment
Government entities and corporates solidify the global grid storage partnership web in the wake of catastrophic technology developer failures.
The solar crisis will become a boon, as record low prices boost demand, more than doubling the market to 61.7 GW – with China emerging as the largest market.
Europe is prime territory, while high-R value glazing and daylighting skylights will capture 86% of the fast-growing materials market
More favorable fuel price splits could increase the market potential, but automobiles will struggle to tap cheap shale gas
With water efficiency a global priority, Lux Research ranked the leading water research organizations and identified best practices for partnering with academic researchers
Upstream companies spend the most – nearly $0.70 per barrel of oil equivalent – as regulatory drivers boost HSE demand
Material suppliers and manufacturers need to ally with technology developers in order to gain access to brand owners in emerging electronics
Landmark study of 3D printing’s commercial potential from Lux Research finds that these three industries will take an 84% share as the market grows at 18% annually.
Industry and company analysis, combined with best-in-class data tool, offers companies complete means to evaluate emerging technologies in alternative fuels
Promising new emerging technologies for improving water quality, finding oil & gas leaks, and making in vitro meat and leather highlight Lux Research’s Q1 2013 list
CSP has been hit hard by the crash of photovoltaic module prices, but can bounce back and cut levelized cost of electricity by up to 33%
Several new technologies promise 10 times more energy, but will not be competitive with the incumbent Li-ion until 2024
The futuristic “Internet of Things” will more than double to 2.1 billion units, leading to a dramatic growth of domestic companies
The industry has seen a 20% annual growth rate since 2005, but now is transitioning to higher-yielding fuels such as renewable diesel and butanol.
The Chinese government is spending money and writing policy to help local companies catch up with Western counterparts in sensors and diagnostics.
As power electronics grow to $15 billion and LEDs to $100 billion, Lux Research identifies the leading technology companies addressing these markets.
Japan, U.K., France, and South Korea also offer attractive landscape and large addressable markets, according to Lux Research’s analysis of policy and market drivers
Megatrends will drive new construction business to more than double by 2023, creating huge opportunities across the globe.
Environmental concerns and regulation will boost biopesticides, but no-till farming and biochar will not enjoy the same commercial success.
Recessed modular will emerge as the largest luminaire market as LEDs displace incumbent technologies such as fluorescents.
A Lux survey found profits average 12.9% industry-wide and identified new technologies and start-ups promising to create additional opportunities.
VC funding has come off the 2007 peak of $990 million, but lopsided investment has left key technologies and exciting Asian start-ups short of funds.
Capital cost, not hydrogen supply, will limit adoption to a mere 5.9 GW, dashing dreams of a revolutionary energy future
Lux Research’s new forecasting tool finds quantum dots, sheet magnesium, graphene, carbon fiber gaining commercial traction over the next 12 years.
