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

Year 2020, Volume: 11 Issue: 22, 507 - 532, 30.11.2020
https://doi.org/10.47129/bartiniibf.788249
https://izlik.org/JA33TD33LU

Abstract

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 are 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 administration, 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. Leaders now look to innovation as the primary source of differentiation and competitive advantage; they would succeed incorporating behavioral economics into the innovative process.

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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Economics
Journal Section Research Article
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Mustafa Şeref Akın 0000-0002-1850-9118

Submission Date August 31, 2020
Acceptance Date November 3, 2020
Publication Date November 30, 2020
DOI https://doi.org/10.47129/bartiniibf.788249
IZ https://izlik.org/JA33TD33LU
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 11 Issue: 22

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APA Akın, M. Ş. (2020). How Can Behavioral Economics Contribute to Innovation? 5-Step-Method. Bartın Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 11(22), 507-532. https://doi.org/10.47129/bartiniibf.788249

Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences is a double-blind peer-reviewed international open access journal published twice a year in May and November, now in its 16th year. The journal is indexed in EBSCO Business Source Ultimate, Index Copernicus, Akademia Social Sciences Index (ASOS), SOBIAD, and Google Scholar. Efforts have been made to have it indexed in the TRDizin Index, and the evaluation process is ongoing.

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