The use of business simulation games in agricultural entrepreneurship education
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Abstract:
Business simulation games constitute a relevant learning method in business and entrepreneurship education. In recent years, the use of simulations has grown progressively, especially in business and management schools, universities and professional associations all over the world. The main reason for their popularity is that business simulation games are considered as effective tools for facilitating experiential learning, allowing students to experience the excitement, challenge and operational reality of starting up and running a virtual company but in a safe, relatively risk-free environment. Accordingly, the use of these business games in agricultural entrepreneurship can contribute to experiential learning through a simulation of real-life situations and agri-business environments and thereby allow learners to acquire certain skills and competences above and beyond the skills fostered by traditional learning methods and thereby fostering agricultural entrepreneurship and employment of agricultural graduates. In the present paper, the author argues that business simulation games can be used to foster students’ entrepreneurial mindset and competences in different academic majors including agricultural sciences. In this paper, some examples of entrepreneurship games are presented which can be used in agricultural entrepreneurship education. At the end, it is recommended that agricultural universities and schools need to incorporate business simulation games into their entrepreneurship and business curricula and benefit from the usage of these games.
Language:
Persian
Published:
Journal of Studies in Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Agricultural Development, Volume:2 Issue: 3, 2015
Pages:
43 to 60
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