Policymakers and industry leaders increasingly recognize the urgent need to decarbonize while ensuring reliable and affordable access to electricity. Rising demand from AI data centers, hydrogen production, and industrial electrification is straining conventional grids and highlighting the limitations of a renewables-only approach to decarbonization. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are gaining traction as a vital pathway to achieve deep decarbonization, offering compact, modular nuclear plants with enhanced safety, flexible siting options, and faster deployment than traditional nuclear reactors. However, international progress in expanding nuclear capacity remains uneven. Effective SMR adoption must align energy independence, regulatory innovation, and industrial competitiveness to deliver long-term resilience. Technology advances, diverse reactor types, and global investment momentum are making SMRs practical, economically viable, and increasingly essential to future energy strategies. In this report, we focus on the commercialization prospects of SMR technologies and how they can potentially reshape the global clean-energy landscape.

This report examines the evolution of polyfunctional manufacturing robots with embedded intelligence transforming factories from rigid automation to adaptive, multitasking systems. It focuses on the software and intelligence layers, including autonomous workflows, predictive motion, semantic reasoning, on-device learning, and human-robot interactions, while excluding hardware and mechatronics. The study provides comparative insights into technology branches such as modular task modeling, workflow arbitration, and low-code deployment, mapping their maturity across technology readiness levels. It evaluates adoption in automotive, semiconductors, consumer electronics, battery, and aerospace sectors, alongside trends in funding, regulation, and IP. Case studies highlight how industry leaders scale modular AI stacks and orchestration platforms across shopfloors. With a forward-looking view on value chain realignment and roadmaps to 2040, the report positions orchestration and interoperability as the new control points. It serves as a strategic guide for providers, integrators, governments, and enterprises shaping the next generation of intelligent manufacturing.

As the global push for decarbonization intensifies, hydrogen has emerged as a key enabler of deep emissions reductions. While today’s hydrogen economy remains predominantly fossil-based, growing momentum around green and low-carbon hydrogen is catalyzing a strategic shift. This transformation is vital for achieving net-zero targets and building a flexible, resilient, and integrated energy system. Despite the progress, many advanced hydrogen technologies are still maturing, offering untapped potential for cost reduction, efficiency gains, and wider adoption. This report examines the evolving hydrogen technology landscape, with a focus on innovations across production, storage, transport, and end-use applications. On the production side, it highlights advances in green hydrogen through electrolysis, particularly Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOECs) and Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) systems, alongside developments in turquoise hydrogen pathways. Storage and transport innovations extend beyond conventional compression or liquefaction, spotlighting novel chemical carriers such as ammonia and Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs), as well as solid-state hydrogen storage systems designed for decentralized and mobile uses. The report highlights how these next-generation technologies are shaping the future hydrogen economy, unlocking new possibilities in industrial decarbonization, clean mobility, and grid-scale energy systems. It explores the key drivers accelerating their development, assesses techno-economic dynamics, and examines policy, funding, and infrastructure enables key for commercialization. By offering a strategic view of emerging hydrogen innovations, application readiness, and market viability, this report equips stakeholders with actionable insights to navigate the complex transition toward a clean hydrogen-powered future.

Policymakers and industry leaders increasingly recognize the urgent need to address climate change by reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and mitigating the growing risks of extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and other climate-related disasters. To prevent irreversible damage, deep decarbonization strategies must include proactive and preventive measures. Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) plays a vital role in attaining deep decarbonization, particularly in sectors that are difficult to decarbonize, such as cement, steel, and chemicals. However, international progress in reducing GHG emissions remains limited. Effective carbon abatement must ensure access to reliable and affordable energy while fostering economic development to improve living standards. Technology innovations in CCU and achieving economies of scale are essential to make decarbonization practical and economically viable. In this report, we focus on the growing adoption of CCU technology pathways and how it helps achieve decarbonization.

This report analyzes the technology evolution and ecosystem dynamics driving the development of Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) systems. As industries demand higher computational reliability and scalability beyond noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, FTQC emerges as a key enabler of practical quantum advantage. The study covers the full FTQC landscape, including error suppression, mitigation, and correction techniques, hardware-software co-design, and technology readiness milestones across innovation pathways. It offers comparative insights into advanced sub-techniques, such as tunable couplers, gate optimization, and stabilizer codes, and maps emerging approaches across modalities and architectures. The report also evaluates FTQC’s application potential across pharmaceuticals, finance, logistics, aerospace, and telecom sectors, while assessing funding trends, regulatory frameworks, IP activities, and system case studies from leading providers such as IBM, Rigetti, and Alice & Bob. With a forward-looking perspective on value chain evolution and commercialization roadmaps, this research serves as a strategic guide for stakeholders across quantum hardware, software, government R&D, and enterprise adoption segments to inform investment, partnership, and innovation decisions.

As global demand for electric vehicles and stationary energy storage surges, the limitations of conventional lithium-ion batteries, such as supply chain challenges, energy density caps, and safety risks, are becoming increasingly apparent. These barriers prompt a paradigm shift in battery R&D, spurring global momentum toward next-generation battery chemistries that promise to be safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. This report examines the evolving battery innovation landscape, with a specific focus on emerging chemistries including Solid-state Batteries (SSBs), Sodium-ion Batteries (SIBs), Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (LSBs), Metal-air Batteries (MABs), and Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) batteries. Each of these chemistries has unique attributes that address traditional lithium-ion systems’ core limitations. The report highlights how these innovations are shaping the future of battery R&D, emphasizing their role in enabling long-duration storage, decarbonizing transport and industry, and supporting renewable energy integration. It explores the driving forces behind their development. It also maps the technology landscape by cost, performance, and scalability, and profiles the leading innovators and stakeholders advancing commercialization. By offering a forward-looking view into emerging battery adoption, R&D trends, application fit, and investment activity, the report equips decision-makers with key insights to navigate the complex transition toward next-generation energy storage solutions. Scope Geography: all Industry: energy, environment, energy storage Contents In this report, we examine batteries, with a major focus on emerging battery chemistries, including SSBs, SIBs, LSBs, MABs, and LMFP batteries.

This report examines technology advances enabling solid waste valorization, where waste streams, such as plastics, biomass, and municipal residues, are converted into valuable outputs (fuels, monomers, and specialty chemicals). As regulatory pressure increases and sustainability becomes core to industrial strategy, solid waste-to-chemical technologies offer a path to decarbonize material production, recover resources, and reduce landfill use. The report evaluates four key technology categories – chemical, biochemical, thermochemical, and physiochemical – covering solvent purification, depolymerization, fermentation, gasification, pyrolysis, and hydrothermal liquefaction methods. It assesses their readiness, operating parameters, industry-specific applications, and impact potential. Through deep diving into case studies, patent trends, and innovation hotspots, the report offers guidance on commercialization pathways, investment patterns, and ecosystem shifts. Stakeholders across chemicals, energy, automotive, and waste management can use this analysis to implement scalable circular strategies and reduce reliance on fossil-based inputs. Scope Geography: global Industry: chemical, packaging, energy, agriculture, automotive, and construction Application: solid waste-to-chemical processes, including fuel generation, monomer recovery, fertilizer production, and high-purity material recycling Contents In this report, we examine: Key solid waste valorization pathways: chemical, biochemical, thermochemical, and physiochemical Technology maturity and impact of over 18 processes, including pyrolysis, gasification, enzymatic depolymerization, and HTL Adoption trends across packaging, energy, agriculture, and automotive sectors Regional investment analysis, policy frameworks, and commercial pilots Comparative efficiency analysis and future roadmap for modular, distributed deployment Strategic action points for R&D, infrastructure, regulation, and public-private partnerships

Everest Group’s Deep Dive – Technology Awareness reports offer a comprehensive and forward-looking view into a technology’s impact, adoption prospects, and how it can shape an industry over the next four to six years. This report examines advanced materials and sensor technologies that enable traceability and trackability in global supply chains. It covers various innovations, including smart labels, intelligent packaging, quantum dot markers, IoT sensors, digital watermarks, and environmental monitoring tools, which are reshaping supply chain visibility. These technologies help industries address the growing demands for product authenticity, regulatory compliance, counterfeiting prevention, and sustainability reporting. In this report, we analyze adoption drivers, emerging applications, technology readiness levels, and barriers to scale. The report outlines strategic roadmaps, key use cases across industries, and evolving standards. The insights help supply chain, R&D, and sustainability leaders make informed technology investment decisions and future-proof their operations. Scope Geography: global Industry: food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, consumer packaged goods, agriculture, chemicals, and materials Application: supply chain transparency, product authentication, regulatory compliance, sustainability tracking, real-time monitoring, and logistics optimization Contents In this report, we examine: The traceability and trackability technologies landscape Smart materials and identification systems, including DNA markers, QD tags, spectral, and edible tagging Sensor and monitoring technologies, such as IoT sensors, GPS, environmental, optical, and thermal sensors Industry use cases and case studies across chemicals, pharma, FMCG, food, and agriculture Key adoption drivers and barriers, including regulatory shifts and implementation costs Future technology roadmaps and innovation opportunities

This report deeply analyzes digital platforms and advanced automation technologies enabling traceability and trackability in global supply chains, with a particular focus on the chemicals, materials, and agriculture sectors. It examines the convergence of digital twins, IoT cloud platforms, blockchain, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), drones, and AI-powered analytics to create transparent, predictive, and autonomous supply chain ecosystems. As regulatory pressures, operational risks, and sustainability expectations increase, these technologies are becoming key enablers of end-to-end visibility, compliance, fraud prevention, and agile decision-making. The report maps technology readiness, identifies high-impact use cases, evaluates adoption barriers, and provides strategic guidance for digital transformation. Scope Industry: chemicals, materials, agriculture Geography: global Application: real-time tracking, supply chain visibility, compliance automation, predictive logistics, warehouse robotics, digital product passports Contents In this report, we examine The role of digital platforms, automation, and analytics in traceability and trackability Technologies such as blockchain, digital twins, RPA, AGVs, drones, and AI supply chain towers Adoption roadmaps, regulatory drivers, and investment trends Use cases across chemicals, agriculture, and manufacturing Challenges around integration, skill gaps, and RoI justification Industry case studies demonstrating impact

The Gaseous Waste Valorization: Technology Advances and Application Assessment report evaluates technology, economic, and regulatory trends shaping the gas-to-chemicals landscape. It examines key innovation clusters, technology readiness levels, and the evolving market landscape for converting carbon dioxide, methane, and other industrial gases into commercially viable products. The report highlights diverse valorization routes, including thermal conversion, catalytic copolymerization, electrochemical reduction, enzymatic processes, mineralization, and plasma catalysis. Each route is assessed for its current impact and future potential across chemicals, energy, plastics, and automotive sectors. The report further evaluates the investment landscape, policy drivers, industrial partnerships, and technology roadmaps to help stakeholders build resilient strategies for scaling circular carbon solutions. Scope Industry: chemicals, energy, automotive, and plastics and packaging Geography: global Application: gaseous waste-to-chemical conversion technologies, decarbonization strategies, CO₂ and methane valorization, synthetic fuels, and sustainable polymers Contents In this report, we examine Technology maturity and adoption trends across valorization pathways Key drivers and restraints for technology deployment Industry-specific application analysis and future outlook Comparative analysis of conversion technologies by efficiency and energy demand Technology development roadmaps through 2030 Innovation ecosystem: patents, partnerships, and pilot projects Investment trends and regional activity hotspots