Justin Delfino

Over the past year, I’ve been in dozens of boardrooms where the same question keeps resurfacing: What are we missing in monetizing our intellectual property (IP) assets? The answer may surprise you—it’s no longer just licensing. It’s private equity. We’re witnessing an unprecedented wave of private equity (PE) attention directed toward patent portfolios. What was once a niche curiosity has turned into strategic financial engineering.

Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence (AI), but not everyone’s talking about it the same way. The tenor of the global conversation on AI ranges from dystopian fearmongering to evangelistic optimism. It’s vital to know the prevailing mood in the territory where you plan to launch your AI-powered service, app, or consultancy. In this article, we’ll briefly tour recent legislation, ethical conversations, and economic strategies to demonstrate how varied current thinking is on this revolutionary new technology. We’ll look at the current situation in the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Japan and beyond, as countries develop the policies, guidelines and laws necessary to regulate AI innovation without stifling creativity.