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The Intelligence You Already Have, May Cost You Millions

The most expensive failures in R&D are not the projects that fail. They are the projects that should never have started — and the ones that limp along because nobody had the evidence to kill them early. Patsnap’s 2026 R&D Benchmark Report puts numbers on a pattern that IP-intensive businesses know intuitively: more than a…

Why “Wait and See” Is Becoming the Most Expensive IP Decision You Can Make

A new technology hits a point where the question stops being whether it works and becomes who already owns the ground around it. Quantum computing has recently crossed that line. McKinsey’s 2026 Quantum Technology Monitor reports over 300 companies — Airbus, JPMorgan Chase, Boehringer Ingelheim among them — moving from pilots to embedded applications, against…

Is Your AI Strategy Just a Faster Way to Stand Still?

Most companies pouring money into AI are getting almost nothing back — and the reason is strategic, not technical. In “When Developing an AI Strategy, Beware the Urgency Trap” (HBR, July 2026), David De Cremer draws on findings that the overwhelming majority of generative AI projects fail and that roughly nine in ten senior executives…

Why IP Strategies Fail: The Gap Between the Decision and the Portfolio

Many intellectual property strategies don’t fail because they were poorly designed. They fail because nothing changes after the sign-off. New McKinsey research in Harvard Business Review — How to Ensure Your Company Acts on Your New Strategy — puts numbers on the problem for business strategy in general: across more than 400 companies, the ability…

Investors Have Told Us What Wins in 2026 — Is Your IP Strategy Listening?

When investors describe a winning company, they now reach for three ideas: credible AI adoption, resilience, and durable competitive advantage. McKinsey’s latest survey of long-term investors — What matters most to investors in 2026 and what it means for companies — makes the shift plain. Geopolitics is the top concern and the risk investors believe…