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Brain-computer interfaces, advanced water treatment, cybersecurity, and more, present new business opportunities based on Lux's ongoing emerging technology scouting.

Sensors for agriculture can raise yields and improve environmental impact, but new business models and pricing options are needed to reap full benefits.

OLEDs will form the largest market segment, accounting for $15 billion, while quantum dot LCDs will grow fastest.

Li-ion will retain its dominance for the next decade, but the time is ripe for investment in rising contenders like lithium-sulfur and solid-state.

The Resource Intelligence for System Knowledge (RISK) platform provides companies with a powerful tool to understand and manage their dependence on critical natural resources. 

It takes the equivalent of three gallons of gasoline to produce one kilogram of beef, and resource risks along with growing population now put a premium on protein security.

As developers of core HVAC struggle, new companies offer novel sensors and controls to improve efficiencies in heating and cooling, which use 38% of energy in commercial buildings.

Resource productivity is a critical metric for long-term performance and profitability, but most companies are working off too little information. 

Thanks to recent advances in modeling and design, development of smart materials will become faster and cheaper in the next five to 10 years.

Tools to gather and analyze energy data in buildings are increasingly using SaaS models and pricing as low as $0.01/ft² to promote adoption.

A new generation of start-ups is offering ways to cut drilling costs and non-productive time as oil operators adapt to low oil prices.

Industry and technology analysis together with deep research capabilities offer clients enhanced market insights.

Other printed electronics acquisition by BASF and Merck also miss the mark, while Xerox's deal represents a best-in-breed transaction.

Ethanol and biodiesel continue their domination but remain relatively flat, while novel fuels and novel feedstocks grow at double-digit rates.

The innovations will also create an additional $2.5 billion market for batteries in 2030 as these features require extra batteries for safety and redundancy.

The Internet of Things has come to oil and gas exploration and production, as Big Oil looks to cut risks and boost revenues in the face of falling prices.

Bosch, one of the world’s top automotive suppliers, has announced it will acquire Seeo, the solid-state battery developer of next-generation energy storage. This acquisition includes all of Seeo’s IP and research staff, and marks a major turning point for the battery industry.

New 3D printing system lays bare technological and business model weaknesses that incumbents have been able to avoid confronting for decades.

The nascent technology is key to the industry’s shift from high costs toward a more affordable and sustainable path to meet consumers’ demand.

LG Chem could claim lead in the emerging $30 billion market, if it can accelerate sales of plug-in hybrids with German OEMs and win over Nissan.

Even though a dramatic decline in global oil prices has led to a fall in fracking activity, water reuse in areas like the Marcellus Shale is still in demand.

High-efficiency silicon technologies will target rapidly growing residential and commercial installations, pushing leading module costs down to $0.48/Wp in 2020.

The market for aerogels, vacuum insulation panels and phase-change materials lies in non-building applications like refrigeration and logistics.

Next-generation coatings that can respond to their environment will be highly impactful, once technical challenges are overcome.

Young companies developing ceramic matrix composites, for uses from lightweighting to armor, challenge the traditional dominance of large corporations.

While materials like SiC and GaN are making gains, silicon will maintain an 87% market share in 2024 through advances in circuits, controls, and packaging.

Best-in-class players such as Panasonic-Tesla will achieve 35% reductions over the next decade, while others could lag at over $229/kWh.

Oil prices' precipitous drop could undermine alternative fuel developers, but Lux Research evaluated 25 companies to see which can overcome the challenge from cheap oil.

Innovation will be important, but regulators and insurers will play vital roles in driving use of diagnostics and monitoring outside hospitals.

For Tesla’s cheap Gigafactory-produced battery cells to truly disrupt stationary energy storage, it needs more partnerships and acquisitions in power electronics, software, and with utilities.

Sensors, software and apps will benefit from greater automation of cars, even as full "self-driving" capabilities remain mostly over the horizon through 2030.

Infant formula containing beneficial microbes will attain a market size of $17.3 billion, growing at a CAGR of 28% from $1.45 billion in 2014.

Coal-to-ethanol conversion offers the most potential, as China focuses on limiting imports today and cultivating greener fuels for tomorrow.

Sustainability goals are growing more important, but also harder to meet, meaning that better analytical tools become a competitive advantage.

In a polymer market worth over $100 billion, bio-based alternatives can offer advantages like biodegradability in the right target markets.

External engagements better correlate with increased revenues and earnings, relative to R&D spending, according to Lux Research's analysis of 50 large building materials companies.

Already $7.2 billion, the market for water treatment in aquaculture will expand rapidly as aquaculture rises to meet 62% of global fish demand in 2030.

Molten salt batteries still account for a majority of existing grid storage installations, but Li-ion is rapidly taking over as the market matures.

The acquisition adds benchmarking and geospatial analytics to Lux Research, which will support clients in improving resource efficiency and identifying new emerging technologies and business opportunities.

Shifts in supply and demand of protein for human consumption will drive the rise of alternative proteins to 307 million MT by 2054, initiating significant changes in the food and agriculture landscape.

Light-weight carbon-fiber reinforced plastics will become technically and economically viable to carmakers, dwarfing current applications, but not for 10 more years.

While carmakers could succeed by playing the role of an “integrator,” GaN or SiC developers could be a “technology disruptor” offering core technology expertise.

Multiple winners will emerge as open standards replace proprietary middleware, with commercial buildings and manufacturing as the top users.

Over the last three years, venture capitalists invested a record $2.64 billion in this segment, a 15-year high.

A sharp plunge in oil prices has shifted the focus from drilling new tight oil wells to optimizing dismal recovery rates of less than 10%.

Capacity will more than triple from 2008's value, as the United States and Brazil drive capacity growth to nearly 3 million tons in the Americas alone.

GaN-on-silicon will lead with 90% of the market; GaN on silicon carbide will gain traction in transportation but GaN-on-GaN will be hobbled by high prices.

Up to 2% of all electrical power goes to managing wastewater, but a new generation of start-ups is offering improved options.

Distributed manufacturing has popped out products from smart watches to cars, but scale economics and demand for novelty show which industries it will disrupt.