Very large industrial real investments are different from financial investments and fromsmall real investments, even so, their profitability is commonly valued with the samemethods. A definition of a group of very large industrial real investments is made, byrequiring three common characteristics. The decision support needs arising from thesecharacteristics are discussed and a summary of existing methods to value and to providedecision support for large industrial investments is presented. A model built specificallyto support investment decisions of very large industrial real investments and anumerical application of the model are presented. The model is discussed andcommented. A note is made on an observation regarding the giga-investment lifecycleand its effect on giga-investment valuation.
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