An Idea for R&D Process Methodologies in Corporates

Abstract

In severe market conditions, the development of products with technological superiority or novelty is a critical innovation strategy for corporations. Thus, R&D processes are used in numerous research projects and implemented in many companies. Stage-Gate^[○!R] and PACE^[○!R] are prime examples of these processes, and are superior methodologies for filtering out promising R&D themes from a field of many. On the one hand, companies are concerned about the possibility of getting rid of something without first having discovered its promise. The "Boost-Gate" methodology was devised to bring up promising themes in these cases, all while providing a boost to R&D. This gate is a platform that has a Function of Organization Activation, and this paper reports on the promise of this methodology through a case study of how K Corp., a food company, put it into practice.