Creating and testing a game-based entrepreneurship education approach

Entrepreneurial games are apromising tool for entrepreneurship education. Students may gain a range ofcompetences and – if feeling satisfied with the gaming episode – developincreased interest in the field. Despite some progress over the last decade,game development and accompanying research are still in exploratory stages.Thus, further best practice examples and insights in game mechanisms areessential. We support progress in two ways. First, we present a self-developedentrepreneurial game, called inspire!build your business. Second, based on data from three inspire! game events, we explore factors influencing gamer’ssatisfaction via a quantitative approach. We find that the relationship betweenteacher and students, the structure of the game session and the perceived gainsin competency significantly explain variance in satisfaction. These insightsalong with the best practice example of the inspire!game may contribute to game development and teaching.