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Nature 456, 700 (11 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/456700c; Published online 10 December 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

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Right environment can enhance 'innate' entrepreneurial skills

Hermann Hauser1

  1. Amadeus Capital, Mount Pleasant House, 2 Mount Pleasant, Cambridge CB3 0RN, UK
    Email: hhauser@amadeuscapital.com

In their Commentary 'The innovative brain' (Nature 456, 168–169), Barbara Sahakian and her colleagues raise the important question of whether entrepreneurial skills can be taught. In my experience, an entrepreneur's 'cold' skills (in creating a compelling business plan, for example) are easier to teach than the more intuitive 'hot' decision-making abilities that stimulate success.

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