jud@bizville.com
Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?
The first sentence of the first post by my new colleague Jennifer Walzer reads "some say entrepreneurship is built into a person's DNA." Ms. Walzer, of course, was using this phrase figuratively, as many people do. But for the last few years, I've been trying to figure out if it is literally true.
With my colleagues Tim Spector and Lynn Cherkas, of the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College, London, and Nicos Nicolaou at the University of Cyprus, I have been conducting behavioral genetics (twin) and molecular genetics (association) studies of entrepreneurship. We've found results that indicate a genetic component.
Scott A. Shane, New York Times
