Whether we can teach entrepreneurship is actually a question about whether entrepreneurialism is fundamentally a mindset or a skill set. For years we've assumed that it is the former. "Entrepreneurial" has been used primarily to describe a personality trait, as if to imply that one is born entrepreneurial in the same way that one might be born creative or athletic. That said, even if we assume that entrepreneurs are made, not born, is it also a skill set that one can only truly learn on the job, as so many entrepreneurs tend to claim?

To read the original article: Michele Serro: The School of Hard Knocks: Can We Teach Entrepreneurship?