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Yann Rousselot-Pailley — Author, Speaker and Innovation Expert

Author · Speaker · Doctoral Researcher

Most organisations don’t have an innovation problem. They have a measurement problem.

Thirty years accompanying innovators across four cultures.
One lesson: what you can’t measure, you lose.

30+Years in R&D & Innovation
4Cultures & Countries
20+Countries Readers
ROI²Doctoral Model UCAM
The Innovator's Compass — Yann Rousselot-Pailley
For CFOs For CDOs For Innovation Leaders For Researchers

The Innovator’s Compass

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Introduction · p.1
The question no one is asking — correctly

Walk into any boardroom in the world and ask the CEO how innovative their company is. You will get an answer. It will be confident. It will cite patents filed, hackathons run, R&D spend as a percentage of revenue. It will tell you almost nothing useful. Innovation without measurement is an act of faith…

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The Innovation Meridian
Winter 2027
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The Innovation Meridian

How innovation actually works across very different cultures — built on firsthand practitioner accounts.

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01
Why Most Innovation Metrics Fail
60–90 min
02
AI-Enabled Innovation Management Systems
45–60 min
03
Innovation as a Portfolio Discipline
60 min
04
Adoption Economics & the R&D Gap
45–60 min
05
National Innovation Systems in a Fragmenting World
60–90 min
06
ROI² — Beyond Symbolic Indicators
45–60 min

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The story so far

Thirty years — one question

« How do we make innovation actually stick? »

From Europe to the Middle East, from startups to sovereign institutions — the question has never changed. Only the scale has.

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