Prediction Markets as an Innovative Way to ManageR&D Portfolios

15th Doctoral Consortium at CAiSE-2008

Cédric Gaspoz*

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

R&D portfolio management is a critical task with which the majority of the large companies are confronted. Despite its wide implementation incompanies there are no widely accepted and used methods to perform this task.Each company uses its own mix of various qualitative and quantitative methodsto achieve its goal. The objective of this thesis is to explore the adequacy andthe design issues to use a prediction market for supporting the R&D portfoliomanagement process. We chose prediction markets to perform this task sincetheir aggregation mechanisms and information discovery process seems tosolve most of the current issues of the R&D portfolio management process.