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Saturday, 28 February 2026

Innovation Interrupts Mean Disruptive Detours

Where it's often assumed that innovation divergence and convergence is the only dimensional direction alternative deign typologies can take, it's all down to proportional balance.

In the constant push to see that prevalence of disruptive works either increases or decreases so as to point to levers that are explicit in effecting breakthroughs in highly disruptive science and technology mean an equal portion of churn and shifting interests of funders and as well as scientific ‘ripeness’ even when it isn't a matter of seasonal cycles rather disruptive work being given air to breathe.

And in the quarterly market the idea of Papers And Patents Are Becoming Less Disruptive Over Time we see an incredible statistical correlation between when agencies make riskier and longer-term bets the time to to step outside the fray, pushing to unknown directions without perishability means consequential output is not only birthed from the either but in ways that it's only see in alternate cycles yet to spin up. Where the vortexes of alternative industrial application see the eddies in close by activity, innovation and breakthroughs occur more often than expected and certainly in the design world with tools that were before Ai, not even possible with output that would be usable in any reasonable time windows. Now, without even almost a thought. And this is just in the visual and 3d / 4d worlds. Where disruption is happening now, is between all of these dimensions and all at the same time.

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Saturday, 31 January 2026

Does Reflexive R&D Outperform Reflective & Critical NPD? Here's How.

When firms need to make breakthroughs it's not just awareness or vision that wins the day but full integration with or without computers that matters.

Reflective ( design & NPD ) thinking ( what has taken place and usually via an emotional state of being & awareness ) ; critical reflection ( focusing on on factual XYZ's ) ; and reflexive ( design & NPD ) thinking ( focusing on discernible patterns in past experiences ) and which can in some ways can be considered statistical patterns matching ( even pattern recognition ) is where, when this is applied to new product development initiatives ( typically between humans without the aid of generative or agentic computing ) is where we often we see completely different outputs in new design and new product development efforts and successes.

What becomes even more interesting is how all of these systems of action independently produce negligent leap frog or breakthrough moments until reflexive thinking in design-based learning process that integrate real time multi-dimensional ( meaning unexpected and non-linear reasoning and as easily understood from examples such as foreign language teaching and interactive systems ) capabilities take place. Random and non-linear opportunities ( even when specifically orchestrated ) are the tipping point to breakthroughs taking place. Is this as simple as randomness ? No. Is this effected by a completely unknown but slightly ( in some cases ) an emotional synchronistic mentality and/or organization - if such a thing can even be said? No. Then how are firms that make the most breakthroughs the fastest, but more importantly, with the most effective ability to enable change ( in a NPD, design, engineering ) able to do this with more ease ( less internal friction ) than others ? By effectively enabling paper based or artificial intelligence integration in design‑based efforts, with design thinking toolsets, and with creative and reflective thinking environments and opportunities.

In Effectiveness Of Ai Integration In Design‑Based Learning we see not only the primitives of raw functionality of design thinking, system thinking, new product engineering efforts, and even the ability of advanced R&D focuses to effect breakthrough success but where we also see formulaic models that can be applied to specific firms today that integrate internal awareness to hurdles that will immediately derail NPD efforts and that can easily translate into successful real world usage. And, where these capabilities can be utilized with or without computers, networks, electronics or any other typical tools past paper, pencil and a phone. However, enable the above, add in Ai systems that enhance the ability of Reflexive systems and processes functionality to occur quickly and easily, and breakthroughs, particularly in learning and retention of non-liner and unconventional processes quickly take hold, and innovation occurs at even greater rates.

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Wednesday, 31 December 2025

Responsible Ai = IP Integrated Ai ? Yes.

If a ( new Ai discovered material ) tree falls in the ( lab ) woods and no one hears it, does it make an ( IP ) sound ? Of course it does.

With the ever increasing space that Ai systems, autonomous agents and integrated Ai code are expanding into, and as recently discussed in MIT Technology Review Ai Materials Discovery Now Needs To Move Into The Real World we are seeing ever increasing situations where Ai is not only validating and extending scientific principals but also where for the 1st time in history, we are seeing situations where specific new breakthroughs are taking place directly due to the output from automated Ai discovery, materials science robotic based experimentation and of course self generative coding systems. The question then is, at the speed and ferocity that these new Ai systems are able to create, and even artistically, build new physical experiments ( in the case of new materials R&D ) having these experiments running in labs is where the value to those that move R&D to production the fastest greater than or less than the patentability of said new breakthroughs?

When automated Ai materials science labs start pumping out scientifically validated materials never seen before and then automatically or with minimal human assistance submitting these efforts for patenting this then begs the question that Ai is automatically or mechanically becoming responsible for the IP protection that goes along with the discovery of new materials ( which may and can be used in enormous quantities ) and this is of enormous value to the firms that are not only using these new materials but also the labs that are producing said Ai augmented if not fully autonomously efforts.

Where we see more and more corporate, government, and large organization groups turning away from Ai as purely a generative and summary engine and onto to a system for unbiased scientific analysis, we see the further exploitation of a method for creating breakthroughs and as directly connected to the triumvirate of innovation: design + R&D + engineering generating IP ( which is protected via legal means ) and then offered to clients of said organization as a defensible part of business operations against external competitors. In modern parlance this is often referred to as the " moat " model of NPD and engineering efforts and as further examined in Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery we see the exact value of such a system and process can create for legacy innovation organizations.

Where this then becomes a further power is in the consistent efforts to create and deliver industrial and consumer breakthroughs where the full ( or even partial ) integration of Ai systems into the international IP ecosystem of organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Office - WIPO, the European Union Intellectual Property Office - EUIPO and other such organizations on each of the world's continents takes place. Examples of this are in the power of Ai to limit international trademark trolling, patent infringement, and counterfeit goods similar to the integration of web based, mobile based and block-chain based technologies had similar effects in past technological adoption curves.

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Sunday, 30 November 2025

Agentic Innovation Means IP Independence ? Here's how

When guiding how Ai delivers exact expertise in innovation efforts, there are ways to not only bring out the best in unexpected path investigations but also ways to use the unexpected to see around corners not previously imagined. But how ?

With Agentic innovation, and via constraint-based brainstorming, there are way to achiev IP independence by producing non-obvious outputs free from prior art and as detailed Out-Of-The-Box Thinking For Sustainability
with such systems as "must use magic" or "created by a six-year-old" to force divergent thinking beyond established frames of reference and Ai analysis and in that generating protectable concepts without reliance on licensed IP. More even in the idea of " protective concepts " as guidelines for types of thinking and directions that can be and will be embedded in Third Self or agentic functional systems.

This is even more interesting within the use of Ai in " Fanciful constraints " to or even patent searches, enabling de-novo IP and where interdisciplinary teams can surfacing core themes like empathy and honesty, untainted by existing methods or Agentic systems where R&D units may begin to build sovereignty assets or classes of expertise that emerges from the analysis of existing person based experience data sets. When this mixing and remixing emerges as new directions for not only R&D investigations but for alternative use cases of existing R&D then true innovations have a way of unfolding in an Agentic investigation and experimentation environment.

Implement this for government and even military R&D we see constrained sessions to derive independent tech breakthroughs may be extendable to classing innovation models and divergent thinking exercises and where again Tight constraints could yield clean, defensible IP rapidly but where extensive use case evaluation needs to take place and not just in the chance situations where many academic and research based Ai systems that can analyze and even synthesize new output in tone and styles similar to the input data set but which still cannot fully ( and based on limited inputs ) create full novelty ( and even more scientifically usable ) directions. It is not as if Agentic Innovation is a fully and likely path to Means IP Independence and especially when these systems could be at some point self referential - the worry of any " thinking new " system that can only explore a certain data set no matter how big or small.

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Thursday, 30 October 2025

Innovation Sustainability: R&D 300 ≠250 Ai

Innovation Sustainability is almost an oxymoron as whether it's Ai Vector databases, catalogued MetaData, or RAG pipelines, etc., today, 250 training repetitions can ≠ 300 Spartans at Thermopylae as R&D is still front and center for NPD success. How? Here’s How.

When the underlying foundation of R&D, science, engineering and experimentation based analysis is the consistent convergence of large sample size and affiliated scientific verification ( and not only detailed in Persistent Pre-Training of LLMs but in Large Language Models Using Semantic Entropy and many more ) we see how any number of industry standard Ai training sets ( and even with the emergence of real-time Ai system " last straw effect " 250 data point inputs ( and from any location, and in data format on the internet ) means persistence across any inputs can cause butterfly effects in final Ai outputs. More, it's where these inputs can not only radically alter the ability of Ai systems to produce output that is not directly effected by " last minute " modalities ( like the last mile problem in logistics systems ) we also see how with a 300 ≠250 footprint, the length of the journey to the last inches can have severely unintended effects. Last second edge constraint changes are not conducive to sustained scientific, data driven artifacts in Ai systems. Where any number of minute changes and especially in last mile data scenarios can change whole gradient descent Ai system outputs even when unconstrained mathematical optimization models in first-order iterative algorithms used to minimize differentiable multivariate functions occur in any number of iterative methods for optimization be it search engines or Ai video or image output efforts, this is in fact happening in some of today's Ai system architecture. 250 is 300 but not for long.

When companies, organizations, group and even individuals move beyond the expected norms of scientific validation of empirical evidence the question becomes at what point do Ai systems begin to alter their output regardless of expert and industry validated guidance and more when sentiment and meta data a bearing that it should not. It is in these cases, and as expertly described in Medical Multi-Agent Systems we see how even in the most high " accurate " Ai systems alone are not a sufficient measure of clinical accuracy and when it comes to effected accuracy, and there is none of higher importance than medical next steps suggestion systems.

Further detailed in Semantic and Generalized Entropy Loss Functions for Semi-Supervised Deep Learning we see how not only are the medical areas of discipline some of the 1st bastions of 300 ≠250 but also areas such as geological systems, nano-materials, optical chip fabrication, and environmental prediction systems ( areas with extremely high signal to noise ratio sensitivity ) and where Ai systems where interference from outside untested influences means edge constraints have larger chances of directly and negatively effecting tested and operational capabilities, this is the area for the largest concern. And, this is where specific new Ai system architectures are evolving to adjust for such discrepancies before output intended for next step actions is utilized and made available as usable and actionable.

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