Crude oil and natural gas are the major sources of energy for the automotive industries since many decades. Due to the negative environmental impact by the increasing consumption of crude oil and natural gas worldwide, and high crude oil prices, biofuels, such as bioethanol, are considered as a successful alternative for crude oil and natural gas as a fuel for automotive industries. • Ethanol is the lowest cost octane with octane rating of 113, providing strategies to save lots of money for both manufacturers and consumers. The bioethanol market is directly affected by the consumption of fuel. Since past four decades, ethanol remains as an effective tool to reduce harmful emissions from the automotive. As ethanol is a pure compound with 35% oxygen, it burns more cleanly and completely than petroleum products. Ethanol helps to reduce emissions of air toxics, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, nitrous oxides, and exhaust hydrocarbons, by displacing aromatics in petroleum products.

There has been a considerable shift in the lifestyles and diet habits of people, over the past two decades. Urbanization and consumerism drove this shift, leading to a rapid rise in the consumption of artificial and synthetic food products, which has resulted in increased incidence of lifestyle diseases. Consumers are aware of the ingredients used in food and beverage and they are gradually moving toward functional foods and beverages, which is promoted as beneficial basic nutrition. These products are purported to provide optimal nutrition and reduce the risk of disease occurrence.

With most organizations struggling with the two major IT-related issues, i.e. keeping their IT infrastructure operating at optimal levels of performance, while simultaneously managing the spiraling costs associated with that goal. The emergence of managed services is aiding in meeting the needs of a wide variety of businesses throughout Europe.  In the region, the telecommunication providers are focusing on security services, owing to the European regulations. In Europe, remarkably in Western Europe, Telcos have a comparatively well- developed managed security services (MSS) offerings, proving their strong network management skills, cloud infrastructure, and expanding connections with enterprises.

The Europe compound management market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 14.5% from 2019 - 2027. The market of compound management in the Europe region is majorly contributed by the UK. The region is experiencing the robust growth of the market owing to growth in the bio-banking sector and development of the European pharmaceutical industry. The top 10 industry players operating in the market of Compound management across the globe include, Brooks Life Sciences, Tecan Trading AG, Hamilton Company, TTP Labtech, Frontier Scientific Services, Biosero Inc., Evotec, Icagen, Inc., Wuxi Apptec, and TCG Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd.

Biosolids provide an eco-friendly way of reducing the dependence on hazardous chemical fertilizers in agricultural applications. The application of these biosolids not only reduces the need for chemical fertilizers, but also enhances the agricultural output. Biosolids are a valuable source of nutrients, although they contain lower N (2–8%), P (1.5–3%), and K (0.1–0.6%), compared to commercial fertilizers, especially the high- grade ones. Biosolids provide micronutrients, including copper (Cu), boron (B), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and molybdenum (Mo), which are essential plant nutrients that are not available in most conventional chemical fertilizers. As more wastewater plants become capable of producing high-quality biosolids, there is greater opportunity to make use of this valuable resource to improve soil fertility and increase crop yield.

Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) refers to mutations found at a specific locus or single base pair mutation containing two alleles. SNPs aid in understanding the correlations between the genotype and behavior indicated by all living organisms.  It involves the measurement of variations that commonly occur in individuals. Unlike conventional time-consuming, expensive, and labor- extensive detection technologies, SNP technology is highly efficient, relatively inexpensive, and automated. The market size can be evaluated by collating the revenue generated from various segments and by studying the usage of the products across various end-user industries, along with the costs associated with them.

Biometrics-as-a-Service facilitates cloud-based identification and authentication for an enterprise to identify an individual through their biological and behavioral characteristics. The technology offers multiple advantages such as easy implementation at any endpoint on the network, accessible from anywhere across the globe and reduced subscription costs. Rise in complex IoT landscape, growing number of cyber-attacks, and increase in demand for cost-efficient biometric solutions among different industry verticals and increase in the adoption of cloud-based biometrics are the factors that mainly drive the biometrics-as-a-service (BaaS) market growth. However, privacy concerns and security issues pertaining to the data stored on the cloud hinder the biometrics- as-a-service market growth. Moreover, advanced technology integrations in cloud-based biometric solutions and growing cloud industry in developing economies are expected to offer lucrative opportunities for the biometrics-as-a-service industry during the forecast period.

Plastic production is growing at a rapid pace worldwide as its application areas are increasing in number. The inherent advantages of plastic such as lightweight nature, ease of availability, and flexibility in its shape have made plastic the most sought-after material in a wide range of applications. The packaging industry has one of the largest application areas for synthetic plastics, with demand ranging over 45% in 2018. With a production volume of over 370 million tonnes in 2018, the usage and adoption of plastic are penetrating all major  industries in one form or the other. China is the largest producer of plastics, followed by Europe, and is expected to retain its dominant positions during the forecast period.

12/14 我们参加了于北京召开的“2019 In-Chain 全球区块链峰会”。正如我们在报告《区块链与数字货币：科技如何重塑金融基础设施》中指出的，区块链是数字经济转型的重要技术之一，有望对金融等行业产生重要影响。会上，来自华为、微众、京东、迅雷等科技金融企业，嘉楠、象链、瑞策、墨客等区块链公司，以及工信部、北京互联网金融协会、数字资产研究院、Hyperledger 等组织机构的嘉宾，分享区块链产业协同实际案例，共同探讨区块链如何赋能实体经济。我们看到，区块链技术目前距离大规模落地还有一段距离，寻找真正适合区块链的场景、合理设计区块链系统、以及解决上链信息真实性，成为重要的议题。

12 月18 日和19 日我们参加了英伟达GTC China 2019 大会。英伟达CEO 黄仁勋在会上发表主题演讲，并发布多项软硬件新产品。其中，下一代机器人处理器Orin SoC 的性能，提升为前代产品Xavier 的7 倍，以及计算图优化编译器TensorRT7 支持RNN，可以更好地支持会话AI。此外，英伟达技术团队以及英伟达的各类合作伙伴，在两天的分论坛和展会中，介绍了AI 及英伟达软硬件平台在自动驾驶、机器人、金融、医疗、科学计算等领域中的应用和最新进展。