#95 Models for AI robotics adoption

This podcast episode explores that AI robotics adoption in innovative SMEs depends less on internal R&D alone than on acquiring external knowledge and building structured collaborations. This makes IP strategy central: firms must secure usage rights, clarify ownership of jointly developed results, manage background and foreground IP, and protect know-how through contracts and trade secrets. External R&D, supplier and customer collaboration can accelerate adoption, but unmanaged knowledge spillovers may weaken strategic control. The key implication is that successful AI robotics adoption requires an integrated make-buy-ally strategy combining capability building, licensing, collaboration governance, freedom-to-operate analysis, and appropriate protection mechanisms.