Policies

• India’s recent aggressive policies and incentives for growth of the bio economy are resulting in tremendous growth and investments in many segments, with biofuels (specifically ethanol) and bio-energy (biomass cofiring) seeing dramatic increase in interest.
• Most of the states in India have bio-economy friendly policies as these have a positive impact on the rural and farming communities. Some states such as Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Punjab and Rajasthan are putting together even more ambitious policies as they foresee significantly higher contribution from their respective states’ bio-economy sectors.

Financing/Investments

• Significant investment thrust from Indian and multilateral lending agencies owing to the combination of environmental and societal benefits of the bio-economy sector
• Increasing investments from corporates as many opportunity segments emerge from their nascency and into their growth stages
• Strong growth in venture capital and private equity investments (especially the former), and these investments are being witnessed across all the sub-sectors – biofuels, bio-energy, biochemicals and bioplastics.

Innovations

• Innovations are being witnessed across the entire spectrum of bio-economy, and from diverse stakeholders – startups, academia, farmers, small businesses, research organizations and large corporates
• Accelerated R&D thrust by both corporates and research organizations in domains such as biochemicals and biofuels is further enhancing the innovation growth in this sector
• India can also leverage and benefit from the dramatic growth in the global bio-economy innovation ecosystem

Collaborations/Partnerships 

• Highly positive trends in multi stakeholder collaboration  – between stakeholders all along the value chain, from farmers all the way to financing companies and end users – is driving the adoption rate of many emerging bio-economy solutions across the country.

Availability of solutions

• Disruptive innovations reaching maturity across many segments, especially biofuels and biochemicals. Examples of these include biomass to liquid, bioplastics & other bio-based packaging, pyrolysis etc.
• Fast improving performance & economics of technologies & solutions such as gasification and anaerobic digestion could drive production of emerging biofuels categories such as RNG and biomass to hydrogen.

We help you in hitting the ground running

In addition to helping you identify and evaluate attractive business opportunities in bio-economy, our team can help your company start off quickly with new opportunities, using some or all of the following actionables.

Invest in startups

You will get immediate access to EAI’s strong connections with hundreds of Indian climate tech startups.

Identify critical innovations

You can leverage our team’s decade long work that touches every component of the bio-economy value chain to identify effective innovations.

International partnerships

We can quickly identify and evaluate strategic and technical partnerships using our extensive network.

Work with Indian and international institutions

Depending on the opportunity, we can also help you start working with Indian and/or international organizations & research institutions. This could be especially relevant for opportunities in emerging sectors such as bio-materials, bio-based hydrogen, etc.

Understand government policies 

Our research team can assist you in  getting a deep understanding of regional, national and international bio-economy policies, and how your firm can benefit from these.

Identify key leadership talent

EAI can use its vast national contact database of senior and top management professionals to help your company onboard the best talent to steer your venture.

Red flag concerns with specific opportunities

Avoiding a suboptimal opportunity is as important as pursuing the right opportunity. Our consulting template has a special section that is allotted to analyses for areas of concern within specific opportunities.