Title
Estimating the potential of collaborating professionals, with an application to the Dutch film industry.
Abstract
Professionals often collaborate in projects. Some of these projects require funding, so before the collaboration can start a proposal for the project is submitted. This proposal will then be evaluated by a committee. The goal of the committee is to recognise proposals that are likely to be very successful. In this paper, we introduce a new numerical method to estimate the expected potential of a proposal. This method helps in identifying proposals that may turn out to be the most successful. The estimation is derived from the past performances of the professionals involved and takes into account the uncertainty of a contribution of a professional to a proposal. We apply our method to the Dutch film industry. We estimate the potential of proposals for new films released in 2010. The value of a film depends on the number of visitors in cinemas and the artistic prizes won. Our estimates are very good, indicating that past performances of filmmakers provide a very good indication of the potential of their new film. As a by-product of our method, rankings of producers, directors, and screenwriters of Dutch films up to 2011 are obtained.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s00291-017-0492-0
OR Spectrum
Keywords
Field
DocType
Proposals from collaborations, Evaluation, Film performance, Dutch films, Z10
Movie theater,Economics,Film industry,Marketing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
1
1436-6304
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Judith Timmer110115.67
Richard J. Boucherie231137.73
Esmé Lammers300.34
Niek Baer411.06
Maarten Bos500.34
Arjan Feenstra600.34