Environmental and Agricultural Biotechnology
Market and Technology Assessments

Representative Projects

Market Reports and Presentations (David J. Glass, Ph.D.)

Author of two market reports on phytoremediation, entitled "U.S. and International Markets for Phytoremediation: 1999-2000", published in July 1999, and"The 1998 United States Market for Phytoremediation", published in April 1998, as well as "The 2000 Phytoremediation Industry", an industry directory published in February 2000.

Author of five published reports on U.S. and international bioremediation markets, including "The Promising Worldwide Bioremediation Market" (Decision Resources, 1993) and "Bioremediation in Germany: Markets, Technologies and Leading Practitioners" (DEVO Enterprises, 1994).

Invited to be a keynote speaker on international remediation markets at the Second International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, California, May 2000.

Invited to be a keynote speaker on international bioremediation markets at the Third International Bioreclamation Symposium, San Diego, California, April 1995. Also presented talks on bioremediation activities and markets at the 1991 New England Environmental Expo, the 1992 HazMat East Conference, the 1995 Superfund Conference, and the Fourth International Bioremediation Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1997.

Invited as a featured speaker on phytoremediation's market potential at several international conferences, including the Second International IBC Phytoremediation Conference, Seattle, Washington, June 1997, the Third International IBC Phytoremediation Conference, in Houston, Texas, June 1998, the Center for Business Intelligence's 1998 Annual Phytoremediation Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1998, the 9th Annual West Coast Conference on Contaminated Soils and Groundwater, Oxnard, California, March 1999, and the Fourth International IBC Phytoremediation Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 1999.

Projects for Clients

Remediation, Environmental Biotechnology

Advised two different Japanese environmental firms on the structure of U.S. remediation and bioremediation markets, and on a specific topic relating to regulation of soil remediation. Helped one of these firms identify and contact possible U.S. suppliers of bioremediation technology for import into Japan.

Advised a diversified Australian company on U.S. and international remediation and bioremediation markets, with emphasis on specific subsectors offering attractive growth opportunities.

Conducted several market research projects for a leading phytoremediation company,including assessment of potential new markets for its technology, and on the economics of competing technologies for remediation of heavy metals from soils and groundwater. More recently, assisted the same company in an SBIR-funded project to assess possible market expansion for phytoremediation technologies.

Prepared a comprehensive report on international markets, technologies and economics for remediation of a major class of environmental contaminants, for a European division of a major multinational corporation.

Commissioned by a diversified U.S. industrial corporation to prepare detailed reports on market structures and potential product opportunities in bioremediation and biological pesticides.

Prepared a report on United States remediation markets, which has been sold to several companies including a leading German bioremediation practitioner and a U.S. consulting/engineering firm.

Counseled a U.S. chemical company that had several bioremediation technologies developed internally for its own remediation problems, on the possible opportunities to introduce these technologies into the commercial market.

Assisted a U.S. wastewater treatment company seeking to leverage microbiological expertise to enter the bioremediation market, by advising the company on the market and on available government promotional programs.

Assisted a North American multinational company conducting an internal assessment of a proprietary bioremediation technology.

Advised a German bioremediation company on U.S. remediation markets, government regulations and promotional programs, and other factors driving and shaping the growth of bioremediation and innovative technologies.

Counseled a small U.S. bioremediation company on possible market opportunities in related fields of environmental biotechnology. Advised another U.S. bioremediation company on the structure and dynamics of markets for microbial bioremediation products.

Assisted a U.S. start-up company research and understand industrial wastewater treatment markets, for the possible introduction of engineered biocatalysts.

Assisted in the preparation of a business plan for a U.S. startup company hoping to commercialize a technology invented in China for biotreatment of metals.

Conducted research for a midwestern analytical services firm on the status of underground storage tank regulation and reimbursement funds in several northeastern states that were the company's targets for expansion.

Agricultural Biotechnology

Assisted an academic research institution assess the market for, and license, a large portfolio of patents relating to plant disease resistance. Also handled the licensing of another plant biotechnology invention for this institution, in an exclusive license to a biotechnology company.

Helped Japanese client learn about U.S. and Canadian plant biotechnology industry: prepared reports describing current industry structure and profiling major small company participants, as well as information on agbiotech venture capital firms and U.S. government agbiotech policies; arranged an itinerary of visits for client with U.S. agbiotech companies.

Prepared a market report on biopesticide and pheromone markets for a small U.S. company having rights to a manufacturing technology potentially applicable to these markets.

Commissioned by a diversified U.S. industrial corporation to prepare detailed reports on market structures and potential product opportunities in bioremediation and biological pesticides.

Assisted a U.S. agricultural biotechnology company analyze European seed markets and potential product opportunities in these markets.