{"id":16400,"date":"2026-11-04T08:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8d.nl\/projecten\/launch-game\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T13:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T13:14:38","slug":"launch-game","status":"publish","type":"projecten","link":"https:\/\/8d.nl\/en\/projecten\/launch-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Entrepreneurship education game<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Launch Game is an entrepreneurship education game that 8D is developing further with five European partners under Erasmus+. Students still often learn to start a business from books. In the game, they run a startup in teams and talk to real advisers and investors. In just two hours, they work through the first two years of their fictional startup, from idea to first customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Keep real conversations between students and experts at the centre: an analogue game with a digital layer <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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In higher education, starting a business often stays theory. Students learn about funding and market research, but rarely make a decision with consequences themselves. Contact with people from the startup ecosystem is scarce. Yet that network is often the reason someone actually starts a company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the Launch Game, student teams run into everything you face as a founder. Real local experts sit at the table: they give advice, close deals and help pick the winner. During the tests, the partner universities measure how the game affects students’ knowledge of entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n

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Next, 8D led an online ‘problemstorm’ with all partners. This is the kick-off session from our methodology<\/a> in which stakeholders decide together which problem to solve first. The partners quickly agreed on what had to stay: the time pressure, the energy and above all the conversation with real experts. Still, a lot had to change. Experts spent much of their time entering data. Players searched a booklet for information, and the facilitator had no overview of all teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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