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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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What happens when intellectual property built into your products turns out to belong to someone else? This week supplied three expensive answers. Each involved one of the world’s most powerful companies...

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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...

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The most valuable intellectual property in your business is often not the product your customers see — it’s the platform underneath it: the data it learned from, the delivery technology it...