Strategic Information for the Life Science and Analytical Instrument Industry
In the past few years, select governments around the world have emphasized the societal importance of clean water by passing legislation for safer drinking water and combating climate change and other environmental hazards. Water testing is one of the many avenues that scientists and others utilize to monitor water safety and pollution. Laboratories could not […]
10x Genomics (10x) is a US-based life science technology company that manufactures genomic and cell analysis technology for scientific research applications. Specifically, the firm’s products and offerings cater to end-users conducting bulk, single-cell and spatial biology analyses. Due to being part of the research scientific tools market, 10x’s co-founder and CEO Serge Saxonov, Ph.D., presented […]
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 highlighted the importance of the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors as scientists worked tirelessly utilizing analytical and scientific instruments to create vaccines to combat the virus. Now that the pandemic has subsided, both the pharma and biotech markets are struggling with issues such as lack of funding for […]
According to KPMG’s CEO Outlook reports between 2021 and 2023, M&A was a crucial growth strategy for executives. Specifically, CEOs believed M&A deals were a way to drive sales growth for companies and moderate external factors such as potential emerging technology disruptions, regulatory demands, and geopolitical and macroeconomic concerns. Additionally, executives who participated in the […]
One can look at the inventions of the semiconductor and the battery to show why the industrial end-market plays a pivotal role in advancing technology. However, manufacturers of semiconductors, batteries, chemical products, plastics and other products would be unable to make advancements without the assistance of analytical technologies. Due to its importance to society and […]
Despite macroeconomic and industry-related challenges, Europe has been a steady regional market for the analytical and scientific instrument industry. IBO’s publisher, Strategic Directions International (SDi), part of Science and Medicine Group, believes market growth in Europe will occur for various reasons. For example, the EU’s scientific research funding program, Horizon Europe, has led to demand […]
The role of what dividend-paying companies in the US stock market would play in 2023 shifted from positive to negative as 2023 continued to be another year of volatility. According to the Wall Street Journal, analysts forecasted in the beginning of 2023 that dividend-paying companies in the stock market would be wise investments for investors […]
The bioprocessing analytical technology sector is critical to the biopharmaceutical industry and becoming more so as continuous and single-use solutions are becoming widely adopted and the number of biotherapeutics coming to market increases. These technology solutions include custom-built and highly specialized bioprocessing technologies. In August 2023, Strategic Directions International (SDi) released the “SDi Bioprocessing Markets […]
According to IBO’s publisher Strategic Directions International (SDi), part of Science and Medicine Group, the analytical and scientific instrument industry plays a crucial role in various end-markets in Latin America. For instance, SDi states that top vendors that supply products, such as GCs and petroleum analyzes, to Latin American oil and gas companies benefit greatly; […]
