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If you run open innovation, R&D partnerships, or technology scouting at a large company, you’ve likely hit this wall: a fluid-dynamics problem, a materials question, or a piece of behavioral science that nobody in the building can answer. Standing up a new outside partner to close that gap usually takes 3 to 6 months once […]
With global scientific output surging by nearly 60% in a decade, R&D teams are now expected to navigate millions of new peer-reviewed articles every single year (NSF, National Science Board). The knowledge that doesn’t make it into journals is many times larger, but both are often invisible to R&D teams. Much of what a lab […]
In the rush to integrate Generative AI into R&D, a dangerous misconception has taken root: the idea that because an AI can predict a solution, it has solved the problem. We have spent the last two years marveling at AI’s ability to crunch decades of data in seconds. In fields like pharmaceutical discovery and agricultural […]
For the last two years, the corporate world has been obsessed with ‘Generation’. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) promised a friction-free future where code, copy, and chemical compounds could be synthesized in seconds. The mandate from the C-Suite was clear: Adopt AI or get left behind. But as we settle into the reality […]
The new supply chain of intellectual capital is changing how companies source expertise, research insight, and innovation capacity.
As we approach Thanksgiving, our minds turn to the traditions of the season: gathering with family, breaking bread, and the collective effort required to put a feast on the table. There is a specific magic to the holiday dinner, it is rarely the work of a single person. It is a collaborative orchestration where different […]