Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
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...
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...
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...
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...
When a customer asks an AI assistant what to buy, does your brand come up as an answer? New research from Georgetown and Darden, published in Harvard Business Review as “How...
July was a month about ownership. Not compliance, not litigation skill – ownership. Google’s edge sits on TPU technology that competitors must come back and license. Sanofi lost the mRNA product...
When Berkshire Hathaway takes a $10 billion stake in Alphabet, the headline is the money. The real story is what Google chose not to monetise on its own. Google’s most valuable...
Something quietly broke this year in one of Silicon Valley’s most-watched classrooms. In Steve Blank’s 2026 Lean LaunchPad at Stanford, every team used AI to spin up working products in hours...
Ben Thompson’s recent Stratechery analysis is a masterclass in how scale, integration and narrative compound into something competitors can no longer touch. Starlink is profitable not because the satellites are clever,...
Most companies now accept that geopolitical risk belongs in corporate strategy, yet very few have ever stress-tested how they would actually respond. McKinsey’s recent article, The art, science, and technology of...
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