I am the CEO of Everest Group, a leading research firm I founded in 1991 with headquarters in Dallas and offices around the globe.
One of the SciTech trends I’m currently paying attention to is how scientists are developing CRISPR genome editing technology. When fully developed, it will dramatically affect food product manufacturers, the farming industry, and consumers. Many communities cannot produce enough food products for their population because of natural disasters, climate change, and other destructive factors. But food security is not the only area of importance.
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Can such food products be productive, and would they be environmentally efficient? Richard says most of the work being done in CRISPR for engineered technology for food security is focused on those issues and on the quality aspect around nutraceutical innovation.
Companies that want to track the development of this new technology – to understand when it could be disruptive in their industry and business – must leverage the capability to track all components of its development and put it into a scenario with a projected timeline. This will give them an understanding of constraints impacting the development and confidence to know whether and when to invest in it.
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