Entrepreneurs: Born Or Made.?!

There's been an interesting debate on whether entrepreneurs are born or made or both. 

There is a hypothesis/myth that entrepreneurs are born with specific entrepreneurial (common personality traits) qualities and that is not only something that one can earn. Many people believe that entrepreneurs posses innate, genetic talents. 

Here they contend that the schooling process discourages creativity because children are endocrine with the standard dogma that they must follow set procedures and not deviate form the rules. All the education cultivates a culture of conformism producing good employees as opposed to the much-needed employers.

However, some experts in the field of entrepreneurship agree that most entrepreneurs are not born; they learn to become entrepreneurs. It is argued that entrepreneurial behavior is a planned and intentional act. Education plays an important role in entrepreneurship, especially in defining opportunity entrepreneurs (a positive effect on self-employment). 

Education becomes an important requirement for entrepreneurs. In the past, many entrepreneurs succeeded without a college degree. Today however, the market is increasingly competitive and a substantial amount of knowledge is necessary to run a successful business.

It's also acknowledged that for the most part, entrepreneurship education is designed to prepare individuals for an entrepreneurial career, with approaches ranging from providing knowledge about entrepreneurship to action-based learning, in which students engage in creating real-world ventures. 

Entrepreneurship education and particularly action-based approaches address the development of entrepreneurial competency where competency is the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that affect the willingness and ability to perform a profession. 

Action-based approaches to entrepreneurship education allow students to gain knowledge and understanding of what and who is important when attempting to act entrepreneurially. However, one's own actions can and perhaps should be carried out in order to achieve the desired effect.

Some entrepreneurs are extroverts and some introverts, some have a family history of v whilst others do not, some start from poverty when others begin with wealth, some are young and some are older. 

You can't teach an individual entrepreneurship and you can't teach him/her how to take risks. What you can do however, is teaching them how to spot an opportunity. Entrepreneurs can develop their skills through life experiences, and through the entrepreneurial process itself.

Entrepreneurs are thus born and made. Inborn traits are as important as in engaging in entrepreneurial activities as education may do. The fact is that some people are good entrepreneurs although have never learn it in schools. Their motivation to make it done have been a source of their success. 

We should be also bear in mind that the world is changing dramatically, and those changes need people with knowledge, skills, and risk taking behaviors to face them and make it he best place to live. Today, we enjoy technological development like mobile banking and ATM's which resulted from knowledgeable, skilled and risk-taking individuals.

Generally, these inventions are the results of educated people with self-efficacy to see the world different from the past, it is therefore, worthwhile to argue that inborn traits and education are combined together to produce a most successful entrepreneur.