The Effectiveness of Simple Decision Heuristics: Forecasting Commercial Success for Early-Stage Ventures
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Most inventions fail to be commercialized profitably. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to predict which ones will? This paper, by Astebro and Elhedhli argues that a simple rule can do quite well making forecasts in a difficult real-world setting.