How Game Based Approaches can increase interest and impact within entrepreneurship education

1. How game based approaches can increase
interest and impact within entrepreneurship
education?
Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit, Ph.D., MBA

2. Problem with Entrepreneurship
Education
EEd faces a two-pronged challenge:
1) To avoid students’ disillusionment about the
education process and their biased view about
entrepreneurship, which mostly emanates from
popular media representation;
2) To simulate an entrepreneurial identity or
process within the safety of classroom, yet with
enough real-world implications or learning.
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3. Ideal teaching scenarios…
Learning about entrepreneurship on
a need to know basis!
Learning through an
entrepreneurial process
Providing a ”Near-Entrepreneurial”
Experience 
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4. THE DISTANT ROLE-MODEL
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5. Entrepreneruship as a career choice
“If entrepreneurship is not activated as a
possible self among students, it is unlikely that
they will point their motivation, energy,
behaviour, and engagement in that direction” –
Claus Thrane & Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit, 2015
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6. Who am I?” “Where am I going?” “Who would I
like to become?” “Who can I become?”
Entrepreneur
Engineer
Professor
Judge
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7. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
(leading definition)
• “Entrepreneurship involves the nexus of two
phenomena: the presence of lucrative
opportunities and the presence of enterprising
individuals” - Shane & Venkataraman, 2000
Thus, a method that can be learnt
and thus taught
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8. Possible selves and entrepreneurial
identities
• Entrepreneurship involves a process
of identity construction or identity
transition (Hoang & Gimeno 2010; Farmer 2009;
Navis & Glynn 2011).
• Individuals experiment or play with
possible selves to create new
identities through self-narratives (Ibarra
& Petriglieri 2010; Ibarra & Barbulescu 2010) .
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9. THE POWER OF NARRATIVE

10. Entrepreneurial self narratives
• “Narratives should represent an authentic,
coherent, purposeful, imagery, and plausible
story as close and true to life as possible.
• Legitimacy, and audience participation are
important features of the validation of self-
narratives in an identity transition.”
– Claus Thrane & Rajiv Basaiawmoit, 2015
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11. The challenge however…
• Within the realm of entrepreneurship, the
authenticity, coherence, and legitimacy of the
entrepreneurial self-narratives is highly complex.
• Students need a framework to discern what
constitutes a credible entrepreneurial role in
their role- or identity- prototyping as well as a
coherent entrepreneurial narrative related to an
entrepreneurial process.
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12. ENTER GAMIFICATION
“Gamification is the use of game thinking and
game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage
users in solving problems” – Sebastian Deterding, 2011

13. Enter ESHIP: Navigating Uncertainty
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14. GAME SETUP
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15. THANK YOU