Hi Richard,
I recently launched a new simulation that seems to fit most your needs. Check out THE NANU CHALLENGE (www.ventureblocks.com). It's an engaging 3D experience for students to practice pre-launch entrepreneurship!
One of my frustrations with many of the entrepreneurship simulations out there today is that they focus too much on operations and not enough on how opportunities are identified, which is my teaching focus. I needed something that helped students practice talking to customers in order to identify their needs.
It takes students about 90 minutes to play and is designed to be played before or during class. I've tested it with lots of students it's turning out to be great practice before assigning the students to go and do it for real outside the classroom.
You can request a demo at www.ventureblocks.com, but feel free to contact me directly if you need more information.
Thanks,
Heidi
Heidi M. Neck, PhD | Professor
Jeffry A. Timmons Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship | Babson College | Babson Park, MA 02457
(: 781-239-5577 | 7: 781-239-4718 | *: hneck@babson.edu
Faculty Director | Symposia for Entrepreneurship Educators
Dear All,
Two years ago I inquired to this forum about entrepreneurship and startup simulations (and shared with interested parties what I learned).
I am currently developing an entrepreneurship learning module for a PhD engineering course. I am seeking a simulation that emphasizes the ideation, early customer discovery and validation stages of the entrepreneurial process.
Does anyone know of a simulation that does this?
Thanks,
Richard
PS Like last time I'm happy to share what I learn!
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Albert J. Simone Endowed Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Rochester, New York 14623
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richard.demartino@rit.edu
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Subject: [ENTREP] Call for Paper Proposals (Global Entrepreneurship: Past, Present and Future) AIM 2016 plus Denver Workshop
Call for Proposals
Advances in International Management 2016 Volume:
Global Entrepreneurship: Past, Present & Future
Editors
Timothy Devinney (University of Leeds)
Gideon Markman (Colorado State University)
Torben Pedersen (Bocconi University)
Laszlo Tihanyi (Texas A&M University)
The role that small- and medium-sized enterprises play in the economic development and growth of cities, regions and nations has been an increasing subject of debate and study for the last half century. Concomitant with the concern with the larger social and economic impact of these firms there has been interest in the factors that lead to their formation, growth, and decline. We know that startups face daunting economic factors that result in their high failure rates. These risks are exacerbated by the economic developments over the last half century that have created conditions where the economic pressures facing small and medium sized firms have become increasingly global. Hence, it is critical that such firms account for how they can compete at larger scale more quickly and do so in a geographically wider domain. In addition, the increasing global nature of competition means that entrepreneurs need to develop business models that can thrive not just in their local markets, but also adapt to a variety of cultures, social, and economic ecosystems that might be quite different. In short, while the complexity of building a global startup and expanding a small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) globally are well appreciated, our understanding of these complexities remains quite limited.
The 2016 volume of the Advances in International Management-the most-downloaded annual scholarly publications in business and management-will focus on the opportunities and challenges that entrepreneurs and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face in a world of global competitions. We have outlined four goals for this volume. First, we would like to provide an overview of successful strategies that global entrepreneurs and SMEs have employed that have allowed them to establish regional and international footprints. Second, we wish to examine how local resources, culture and managerial capabilities have contributed to startups' global success (or the lack thereof). Third, we would like to study the interactions between SMEs and multinational enterprises (MNEs) both at the level of MNEs as incubators for entrepreneurial ventures and as competitors to those ventures. Fourth, we aim to publish a collection of chapters with original, even edgy ideas and theoretical advances that will provide the foundation for future doctoral dissertations and other research projects on international entrepreneurship.
We hope the volume will provide a forum for thought-provoking empirical research, theoretical ideas, discussions, and reviews owing to its format and our review process. We are open to theoretical papers and empirical submissions using different methodological approaches and diverse macro and micro perspectives.
Submission Information
- Authors should submit an electronic copy of their proposal (5 single-spaced pages) to the Editors of the volume (Adv.Intl.Mgt@gmail.com) by July 1, 2015. Our suggestion is to not submit your abstract before 1 June, as we will not be examining them in sequence.
- Workshop for abstracts accepted for consideration: 7-8 October 2015 (immediately following the SMS Conference). The workshop will be held in Denver.
- Submission deadline for full papers: November 15, 2015.
- Submission deadline for revised papers: February 10, 2016.
- Publication date of volume: July 1, 2016.
The Advances in International Management (AIM) is a research annual devoted to advancing the cross-border study of organizations and management practices from a global, regional, or comparative perspective, with emphasis on interdisciplinary inquiry. Information on past AIM volumes and contributors can be found at the following link:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1571-5027.
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Leeds University Business School
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