According to the 2012 Motorsport Sponsorship Report just issued by Foresight research in Rochester, Mich.

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Finding a winner under circumstances like these may require just as much luck as foresight and research.

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That market share could rise as high as 25 percent in coming years, according to Yale Zhang, managing director of Auto Foresight, a research firm in Shanghai.

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The data for the research were accumulated by a combination of foresight and ingenuity.

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On Wednesday, Dan Geer, Alex Hutton and Greg Shannon plan to give a talk at the cybersecurity-focused conference SOURCE in Boston on using prediction markets to gain foresight into future events in cryptography research, cyber threats, and even data security-related regulation.

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"The U.K. government showed tremendous foresight, " says Peter Siderman, who runs an employment research institute financed by outsourcing giant Adecco Group and has studied the immigration wave to Britain.

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