One example is seed and bio-agricultural company Monsanto, which reported increases in soybean orders and a 13% increase in its seed and genomics segment for the first quarter of fiscal 2011.
Combined with a new survey of the top 30 US angel investment groups that shows a marked increase across the board in seed stage valuations for startups, it is clear that the innovation economy is continuing its steady growth that began over three years ago.
Seed and agrichemical company Syngenta said that an increase in demand for crop enhancers and a growing emerging market presence helped to offset the difficult weather conditions and commodity price increases during its half-year reporting period that ended June 11.