Rates of Entrepreneurship

Quite an interesting article in today's Taipei Times on entrepreneurship by Robert Shiller, professor of economics at Yale University, and the factors that influence how many entrepreneurs a nation produces. Some of these factors may surprise you: for example, people with "pizzazz and brilliance" tend to open fewer businesses than people who value "hard work and resolve."

There is also a piece which discusses the anatomy of the entrepreneur on Alex Bellinger's SmallBizPod#13.

Not only are these pieces concerned with the traits and behaviours of the entrepreneur, they also shed light on the context in which innovative activities occur. It is this factor, context, that pretty much determines what happens to ideas as they emerge in a firm.