Biosecurity Landscape Analysis

Executive Summary:

• Australia's prominent position in international biosecurity is due to its significant exportation of 72% of its agricultural products. The global biosecurity efforts have largely been concentrated on areas such as aquaculture, livestock, crop disease management, human health, and tackling antimicrobial resistance.
• Syngenta Ag ($1.1 B) had the largest private investments working on seed treatment and soil protection. AgBiome and Esco Micro are the prominent companies with solutions on biosafety cabinets to test pathogens and microbes in controlled conditions.
• Patents on IOTs, sensors, biocontrol agents, and inspection & quarantine have been increasing steadily, while vaccine and biochemical-based research were consistent in the last decade with 65% of the total patents in the applied stage.

Ubuntoo Landscape Assessment:

Ubuntoo proposes a Design Thinking approach by applying the Double Diamond framework to help organizations to expedite their sustainability agenda. The framework comprises two clear stages. The first one consists of the landscaping of industry megatrends and definitions of focus areas, and the second stage includes the discovery of solutions and innovations that are the right fit for our client's context and sustainability challenges.

The landscape exercise assesses the short- to long-term industry panorama for advanced recycling of polyesters to identify megatrends, nascent innovations, and emergent technologies that receive attention and investment from industry players. The landscape methodology comprises three distinct pieces:

News, blogs, and articles: used to identify megatrends and the landscape of existing solutions and developments to be implemented within the next 6 months. In this stage, we gather insights from more than 60,000 global news sources and over 1,000,000 blogs.

Companies: used for competitive scouting, identification of nascent start-ups, and adjacency solutions. In this stage, Ubuntoo will scrap information from a database of over 22M companies with metadata on founding year, investment amount received and investors, and more.

Patents: used for the identification of emerging technologies and innovations. Ubuntoo will gather insights from patents in more than 50 jurisdictions with metadata available on company assignee, filing location, status, etc.