Demand is solidifying for products that use biological processes and genetically modified microorganisms in place of traditional production methods. But for change to happen, costs must come down.
What Is Deep Tech?
Deep tech involves leveraging mature and emerging technologies to solve the largest problems facing the world today—while enabling bold business objectives and invigorating value chains.
Our Approach to Deep Tech and Deep Tech Ecosystems
BCG works with clients to redefine their value chains, revamp the way they work, and adapt to disruption by deploying big-impact, high-capital technologies such as
artificial intelligence,
synthetic biology,
quantum computing, and
augmented reality. Our deep tech consulting is distinct in scale and expertise:
- We monitor accelerating deep tech trends to generate insight, and we make recommendations on best use cases and investments.
- BCG’s experts recognize situations where a firm could disrupt its industry through deep tech deployments—or where a competitor is threatening disruption.
- Our consultants act as catalysts between multiple players in the deep tech ecosystem, bringing within reach the extensive capabilities needed for successful ideation, setup, and scaling of deep tech ventures.
- BCG’s deep tech experts pay close attention to climate change and sustainability issues, leveraging powerful solutions to fuel real progress on this most urgent issue.
Our Insights on Deep Tech Trends and Applications
Article
November 21, 2023
The technologies of the future are not for the faint-hearted, but the markets that deep tech opens and the returns that startups realize can be huge.
Article
February 10, 2022
Synthetic biology technologies are finally maturing, becoming the way almost anything can be manufactured competitively and sustainably. Businesses must learn to use syn-bio to develop new products and processes, improve existing ones, and reduce costs to remain competitive in the future.
Video
March 10, 2021
How Deep Tech Could Shape the Future
How do companies like SpaceX make sudden breakthroughs? BCG Managing Director & Senior Partner
Antoine Gourévitch explains how deep tech's new approach to innovation unlocks solutions to decades-old challenges.
Report
May 19, 2022
Any business that has set sustainability goals, produces a physical product, or supports a business that produces a physical product will need to incorporate one or more deep technologies.
Meet Our Deep Tech Consulting Team and Partnerships
Members of our deep tech consulting team think about both the immediate opportunities to engage tech and the horizon of tech evolution. BCG’s experts draw on their varied backgrounds and wide-ranging relationships with clients throughout the world.
We have an exclusive strategic partnership with Hello Tomorrow, an international organization that promotes disruptive solutions built around unique, protected, or hard-to-reproduce technological and scientific advances. Through this partnership, BCG and our clients gain early access to emerging technologies and to a network of more than 3,000 deep tech startups.
