Waste, AIand the Raceto Market
More than 200 senior R&D leaders across North America, the UK and Europe share where budgets are being lost, why strong projects fail to reach market, and what the organisations pulling ahead are doing differently.
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rank accelerating time-to-market as their top strategic priority
say faster time-to-market is their biggest R&D pressure today
say lack of early-stage funding is where viable ideas fail
cite cross-functional alignment as their biggest obstacle to market
say their average development cycle is 1-2 years
say better intelligence access would have the biggest impact
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What 200+ R&D leaders revealed
about where innovation stalls
The report examines where R&D waste originates, why projects fail, and where AI is and is not yet closing the intelligence gap.
The Pressure to Innovate Faster
How competition and AI are compressing the window between innovation and obsolescence, and what the commercial cost of moving slowly looks like.
Understanding Why R&D Projects Fail
Where investment is being lost, why IP issues keep surfacing too late, and what the data reveals about where viable ideas stall.
The Intelligence Gap
Why organizations are spending close to two working days a week on intelligence that is still not ready to act on.
Accelerating Speed-to-Market with AI
Where AI is already making a difference, where it is not, and what separates the organizations realizing its full potential.
We are at a pivotal moment in history because of AI. If you can’t do things fast, then you are going to lose, so speed is going to be a major competitive factor going forward.
Gitte Pedersen, CEO and Co-founder, Genomic Expression