Stage Gate Analysis in Business-Academia Collaborative Project

This paper analyzes an actual business-academia collaborative project from the viewpoint of stage gate approach (we call this approach “stage gate analysis”). Stage gate analysis is a method of reviewing a finished project and summarizing it, whereas conventional stage gate management is used to control an on-going project. The case study analyzed is a project undertaken over a period of 6 years by Tokyo Institute of Technology, Toshiba Corporation and other companies to construct credit information infrastructure. The stage gate analysis clarifies success and failure factors of the project with a cause-and-effect relation map which can be utilized by other business-academia collaborative projects.