Intellectual Property assets can be used in many ways and for many purposes. Something of strategic value to one company may be useless to another. We work closely with clients to understand value creation in their context and to use intellectual property to enhance value for them. Typically this results in the intellectual property itself becoming more valuable, and sometimes it does not.
Some examples of increasing value with IP include:
Insights about increasing value with IP
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 — and the result wasn’t faster learning. It was faster failure. As Blank put…
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, but because SpaceX owns the launch capacity that puts them there. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving…
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 geopolitical scenario planning, puts numbers on the gap: fewer than a third of organisations…
Most capital allocation fights aren’t really about the numbers. They’re about the absence of an organizing principle. When a business has no clear answer to “what are we actually about,” every investment decision collapses into a contest between competing logics — the safe, modelable bet…
Intellectual property rarely fails loudly. It fails in the gap between filing and follow-through — the priority date no one re-checked, the order no one renewed, the AI agent no one supervised. This month’s posts make one point together: the threat to your most valuable…
For two decades, IP protection quietly relied on one assumption: a human in the loop who knew what was confidential, what was privileged, and where a draft came from. Agentic AI removes that person. A new white paper from the Governance Institute of Australia, Governance…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
