... on testing the major assumptions for that stage. Nate Hutchins can be contacted at nhutchins@strategos.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Stage‐gate process Innovation commercialization Budgeting and planning methodologies Gate reviews Assumption‐driven process Risk Risk...

... to formalize “selection” often take the form of a “stage gate” process. The idea is to fund a relatively large number of initiatives at a low level and make subsequent funding contingent upon meeting ever‐more‐exigent criteria for technological development or marketplace acceptance. The standard metaphor...