Idea Market
Updated 2026-08-10
INTRODUCTION
English translation pending.
CORE DEFINITION
A corporate system that applies market mechanisms to the evaluation of ideas. Employees receive virtual currency and can buy and sell shares in internal projects much as they would trade stocks. Projects whose prices rise attract resources; those whose prices fall are starved. The key qualification is that the currency is virtual and the market is internal, so the signal reflects informed collective expectation rather than financial stakes. The design is meant to replace executive guesswork with aggregated judgment.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Idea triage: price competing proposals before allocating budget instead of debating them in meetings. - Bias check: use prices to expose which pet projects survive only because a senior sponsor backs them. - Resource routing: shift funding toward the highest-priced ideas and revisit the ranking each quarter.
Anchor fast decisions
Dispersed information about a project's prospects sits with many employees, not with any single executive. Trading forces each person to convert private belief into a priced position, and the clearing price aggregates those beliefs into one number. Because participants lose virtual wealth when wrong, they trade on genuine information rather than on politics, which improves the accuracy of the forecast.
MINIMUM ACTION
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- en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_marketverified
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