The project aimed at studying the state-of-the-art in the domain of conversion of feedstock such as Natural gas, Coal and Wastes to fuels (especially Gasoline). Focused research was conducted to identify players active in the domain, who were then benchmarked and ranked on technical and operational capabilities. The analysis was instrumental in assessing client’s overall positioning in the space, and identifying competition, and potential partnership opportunities.

Technical capabilities were assessed by performing a detailed analysis of the analysis of each player’s patent portfolio and scientific literature publications. Operational capabilities were benchmarked using parameters such as number of operating plants (existing and planned), plant capacities, strategic focus on building operational capabilities, and many more.

The client owned a technology which is currently widely used in several telecommunication products. The project involved extensive business research to understand and quantify the revenues attributable to the given technology (for a given set of companies). The product portfolios of these companies were studied and searches were performed to identify information such as trends in volumes of products shipped, historical prices (publicly available information), launch dates, changes in market acceptance levels through infusion of the client’s technology, etc. This information was analyzed to understand the revenues and value attributable to client’s technology – for each application area and across several companies.