Institutionalizing Elegance: When Simulation Becomes a Requirement

Abstract

The field of entrepreneurship has moved to embrace, even institutionalize, simulations as a part of classroom instruction. Although this fact must be gratifying to proponents of simulationbased learning, institutionalization has posed pitfalls to the fields of simulation and entrepreneurship education. These are outlined and set in the emerging context of Internet-based simulations. The polemic concludes that the centrality of one’s passion for the human element of simulation remains the driving force to better simulation as a whole.