Incentive Markets was a consulting company that developed prediction market applications for corporations. The company specialized in the pharmaceutical industry.
As of Feb 2005, Incentive Markets is no a longer viable company, as stated by Carol Gebert, founder of Incentive Markets, during the Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) Workshop on Markets as Predictive Devices (Information Markets).
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