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Crowd Clarity is a new entrant to the field of Prediction markets for firms.

"Using prediction market to forecast pharmaceutical development success (courtesy Jenny Ambrozek)"

"New product innovation is a strategic business activity that involves significant financial resources and managerial attention. Most new product launches fail because existing methods are unable to forecast their commercial successes accurately. In this article, we describe a market-based method to address this gap."

"New product innovation is a strategic business activity that involves significant financial resources and managerial attention. Most new product launches fail because existing methods are unable to forecast their commercial successes accurately. In this article, we describe a market-based method to address this gap."

"'Knowledge creation trumps knowledge transfer' 'Diversity trumps ability' 'Diversity across firms trumps diversity within companies' These are some of the themes explored in this interesting article from Business Week Magazine. The Las Vegas casino Hurrahs is tapping into the power of prediction markets specifically to innovate. The importance of particular kinds of diversity are also explored. If you want to know more about Prediction Markets, we are building a considerable KIN resource on this here and the KIN Quarterly Workshop on 2nd December will cover this topic. Thanks go to Jenny Ambrozek for pointing out this fascinating article. "

"Caution! Page goes deep into the mathematical theory behind prediction and group behaviour. Unless you are comfortable with 'the math', you will find this tough going."

New product innovation is a strategic business activity that involves significant financial resources and managerial attention. Most new product launches fail because existing methods are unable to forecast their commercial successes accurately. In this article, we describe a market-based method to address this gap.

Prediction Markets Google Group. The Group comes compleat with some very opinionated characters. Can be useful to watch the ambient flow from a distance for nuggets like the Economist article. Suggest people subscribe with a non-work id that they can check at their leisure so any posts don't clutter work email on handhelds.

The company as a wiki. US Company Best Buy embraces WEB 2.0 including prediction markets. Best Buy's CEO talking about prediction markets at zeitgeist '08 (starting at 9:50)

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Prediction Markets is planned to be one of the topics at the 2009 winter workshop

Video talking about how US company 'Best Buy' uses prediction markets

From Jed Christanson's blog - predictin market software review