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Nature or Nurture? Factors of Entrepreneurship: a Comparative Approach
| Author(s): | Tortella, Gabriel
Quiroga, Gloria
Moral-Arce, Ignacio |
| Title: | Nature or Nurture? Factors of Entrepreneurship: a Comparative Approach |
| Issue Date: | 2009-May-11 |
| Description: | This is a progress report of ongoing research. Please do not quote without consulting the authors. |
| Bookmark as: | http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:29752 |
| Abstract: | There is an ongoing discussion about whether entrepreneurship is basically an innate gift or whether education has a traceable effect on the quality and success of entrepreneurs. This paper tries to put these hypotheses to test by means of a comparison of English and Spanish businessmen. Based on a large database, and using descriptive analysis and econometric tests it shows that although the educational systems in both countries are quite different, entrepreneurs respond to the quantity and quality of education they have received. |
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