Discovery projects
On May 20, 2026, KPMG released its "Global R&D Benchmarking Report," highlighting the emergence of "Resilient Discovery Frameworks" (RDF) in the pharmaceutical and materials science sectors. RDF moves beyond traditional project management by incorporating "Antifragile Planning," where project failures are systematically harvested for secondary data value. The report indicates that organizations adopting RDF have seen a 22% reduction in "Sunk Cost Bias" by utilizing automated "Kill--Switch Protocols" triggered by predefined divergence from theoretical models. This approach allows for the rapid reallocation of capital to more promising experimental vectors, optimizing the discovery pipeline.