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"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."

"'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. "

"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."

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

"Video of the national knowledge market held in in Liverpool late 2008 by Sellafield, on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Also see the accompanying 'lessons learned' video."

"'lessons learned' video from the national knowledge market held in in Liverpool late 2008 by Sellafield, on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority."

"The IEM is an on-line futures market where contract payoffs are based on real-world events such as political outcomes, companies' earnings per share (EPS), and stock price returns. The market is operated by University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business faculty as an educational and research project."

"Primarily to stimulate inventions rather than service innovation, this is an interesting take on the monetary award principle of stimulating ideas. Link kindly suggested by Margaret Demian of NHSI."

"Post your Q&As here in advance of the Winter Workshop."

" I saw Cogenz present at the NETIKX meeting in Feb. PhilR"

"Search software with a difference. Seems to only be in Beta testing at the moment, but looks very relevant to Locate, Connect."

"BBC Radio 4 'In Business' on social media for connecting"

"Information networking is social too"

"Sharepoint, Confluence and Newsgator: towards the social stack"

"Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Corporate Intranet"

"'Reassessing the Aha! Moment' or ' epiphany is balderdash' - another perspective on informality and innovation from the International Herald Tribune"

"SUN CEO Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Innovation Loves a Crisis"

"Academic paper on measuring informal innovation. The definition is "Innovation that is not explicitly planned and budgeted by identifying innovative firms that do not conduct any R&D""

"the Daphne-dilemma - facing attempts to improve the productivity of informal innovation networks: too little management effort may lead to under-exploitation of their potential and poor productivity, but too much management effort may destroy their informal nature and hence their creative and explorative potential."