Designing a course for stimulating entrepreneurship in higher education through serious games

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 15, Issue , 2012, Pages 174-186

  Bellotti, F ^a   Berta, R ^a   De Gloria, A ^a   Lavagnino, E ^a   Dagnino, F ^b   Ott, M ^b   Romero, M ^c   Usart, M ^c   Mayer, I S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business games simulations; Collection of requirements; Entrepreneurship; Higher education; Serious games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893749415     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.10.069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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