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75% -- innovation failure rate for new consumer product innovations (2025)

2025  · Catalyx

75 percent of innovation fails to survive beyond year two.

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75%
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Percentage
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2025
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new consumer product innovations
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Catalyx Primary Tier C
https://thecatalyx.com/podcast-why-innovation-fails-and-what-brands-can-do-about-it/ ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Why Innovation Fails and How to Fix It | Guy White, Catalyx
PODCAST: Why Innovation Fails, And What Brands Can Do About It What separates a winning innovation from one that never makes it off the shelf? Most new products fail. But why? And what can you do to avoid becoming part of the 75 percent? In this episode of Qual: Unplugged, hosted by Jay Tye, of 10K …
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new consumer product innovations: 75% innovation failure rate. Source: Catalyx (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/innovation-failure-rate-75-percent
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/innovation-failure-rate-75-percent" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>75%</strong> -- innovation failure rate for new consumer product innovations<br><small>Source: Catalyx (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/innovation-failure-rate-75-percent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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