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R&D Waste Persists Despite AI Adoption, New Report Finds

A new report from IEEE Spectrum and Wiley, sponsored by Patsnap, indicates that despite increasing AI adoption, many organizations are still wasting significant R&D budgets on projects that fail to reach commercialization. The report, based on a survey of over 200 R&D professionals, found that over a third of companies allocate 25-40% of their R&D budget to projects that never make it to market. While AI is widely used for project execution, it is not yet effectively employed for strategic decision-making regarding project investment, leading to costly late-stage cancellations. AI

IMPACT Highlights the gap between AI adoption and its strategic use in R&D decision-making, suggesting a need for better AI-driven intelligence to reduce waste.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses findings from an industry report about R&D practices and AI adoption, rather than a specific event.

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R&D Waste Persists Despite AI Adoption, New Report Finds

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  1. IEEE Spectrum — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Patsnap ·

    Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption

    <img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/patsnap-logo-with-abstract-connected-circle-design-in-grayscale.png?id=67571651&amp;width=980" /><br /><br /><p>This report examines R&amp;D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential deci…