Client Need
The Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine wanted to understand their current ecosystem focused on the Advanced Sensing Capabilities for Environmental and Natural Disasters (ASCEND), specifically for wildfire prevention and mitigation, water quality, soil health, and air quality use cases. Being an NSF-funded climate resilience engine, they also wanted to understand the demand for these technologies in the government as well as the commercial sector.
Results
In less than three weeks, PSF conducted a regional analysis that identified a robust and comprehensive ecosystem of 340 organizations across Colorado and Wyoming, along with a demand analysis for advanced sensing technologies in both the government and commercial sectors.
We identified the key components of the advanced sensing technologies and their implementation across the four use-cases.
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131 startups and more mature organizations, a strong base of 67 research-focused organizations, 58 investors, and 82 non-profits/entrepreneurial support organizations were identified; this mix provides all the primary components necessary for a strong innovation ecosystem.
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We also analyzed four key use cases to assess demand and identify a diverse set of buyers, including government agencies, as well as private sector stakeholders such as insurance companies, utility providers, agricultural firms, and environmental organizations.
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We created a summary for each use case, which included the overall regional analysis, covering demand trends and a baseline mapping of ecosystem participants such as companies, research institutions, investors, non-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial support entities.
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Approach
By utilizing AI-enabled Rapid Market Intelligence solutions along with traditional research methods, PSF:
- Leveraged AI-powered market ontologies to develop a keyphrase list aligned with the four major use cases of ASCEND technologies for climate resilience.
- Created an ecosystem baseline to assess the presence and maturity of ASCEND technologies in Colorado and Wyoming, mapped against the four use cases, and identified key demand drivers and customer segments.
- Identified ecosystem participants across all four use cases in both states, including companies, research institutions, investors, non-profits, and entrepreneurial organizations.
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