Ask Americans if their school education made them interested in becoming an entrepreneur, and 51% will say it did, a new poll from Gallup shows. But ask around among Europeans, and only a quarter say that it did.
So what is it about U.S. education that might encourage budding business leaders?
Partly, U.S. society overall values entrepreneurship highly, typically more than European societies, people seem to generally agree.
Take Andreas Goeldi, a Swiss-born Internet entrepreneur based in Cambridge, Mass., who has written about the issue on his blog. He describes what he sees as a cult of entrepreneurship in the U.S., compared to a higher degree of risk aversion in Europe. Goeldi argues that Europeans attach so much shame to failing at starting a business they tend not to.
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Author: Sarah Mcbride
