文摘
This paper is aimed at empirically analyzing how user needs may drive the development of a special class of innovative services, namely multimedia home banking services. Homogeneous groups of potential users are identified in a sample of 400 customers of Italian retail banks, while a discrete-choice model is estimated relying upon a sub-sample of 148 individuals; the attitude of typical individuals towards a number of hypothetical designs of the new service is simulated. It is shown that differences in both socio-economic conditions of living and individual skills cause potential consumers to select different designs of multimedia home banking.