INNOVATION SERIES

Innovation Theatre

The unseen costs of corporate innovation theatre

By Eoghan Neligan

Innovation waste costs enterprises hundreds of billions globally each year, with failure rates between 40-90% for corporate innovation projects.

This article examines how organisations can shift from wasteful innovation to value-creating experimentation through evidence-based funding, psychological safety, and fail-forward culture.

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The Gatekepper's Gambit

Why innovation dies at the door of corporates

by James Boult

Corporate innovation fails not because enterprises lack ideas, but because the systems for surfacing and developing them are broken. Good ideas face structural and political barriers that kill them before reaching market.

This article examines why gatekeepers exist, how they suffocate innovation, and what structural changes enable ventures to thrive.

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