{"title":"Improving Effectiveness of Government-Funded R&D Programs—Application of a Stage-Gate System for a Japanese Ministry","authors":"Yohei Sukegawa, T. Samad","doi":"10.1109/TEMSCON.2018.8488433","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) in Japan spends about 7 billion yen in commissioned project studies and competitive funds programs that are mainly targeted at maturing technology from a technology readiness level in the 3–6 range. The success rate of these programs, as measured by commercialization, has been poor. Other governments have adopted stage-gate processes for R&D funding programs with greater transfer of the developed technology to commercial products. Three such programs-two from the US and one from the UK-are reviewed. Based on the analysis, a new stage-gate process for MAFF is proposed, with gates and deliverables identified.","PeriodicalId":346867,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Conference (TEMSCON)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2018 IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Conference (TEMSCON)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEMSCON.2018.8488433","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) in Japan spends about 7 billion yen in commissioned project studies and competitive funds programs that are mainly targeted at maturing technology from a technology readiness level in the 3–6 range. The success rate of these programs, as measured by commercialization, has been poor. Other governments have adopted stage-gate processes for R&D funding programs with greater transfer of the developed technology to commercial products. Three such programs-two from the US and one from the UK-are reviewed. Based on the analysis, a new stage-gate process for MAFF is proposed, with gates and deliverables identified.