How Can Behavioral Economics Contribute to Innovation? 5-Step-Method


Akın M.

Bartın University Journal of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, cilt.11, sa.22, ss.507-532, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

Behavioral economics has developed as an alternative view of the orthodox economy and has not seen the core stream in the innovation process. However, behavioral economics may actively contribute to new product development through its smart methods. This paper demonstrates how behavioral economics may contribute to the innovation process. The 5-steps method is developed: Business outcomes, personas, user needs, behavioral brainstorming, and hypothesizing. In a class activity, we test the process of learning management systems with students. The behavioral methods are explained. Team members interview with administrators, teachers, and students. They provide insights and ideas by realizing how behavioral economics has much to offer a business world in which most management ideas and best practices are freely available to be replicated and exploited. Managers now look to innovation as the primary source of differentiation and competitive advantage; they would succeed incorporating behavioral economics into the innovative process. In this paper, we particularly focus on the improvement of education quality through behavioral economics. The result we expect is both higher-quality knowledge transfer and reduce preparation time, permitting much earlier and better-informed contact with students.