Author: Charles
According to Francois, entrepreneurship is partly explained by culture and I think that he offers a good example in his article to prove this trend: “the USA have the highest rate of business ownership in the total workforce and the highest TEA (Total Entrepreneurial Activity) among the OECD countries with 10%, whereas on the opposite France’s TEA is lower at around 4%.“ We find this same trend in the way entrepreneurship is taught in school. The teaching of entrepreneurship is not the same in France as it is in the USA, or for that matter in other countries in Europe such as the UK, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, and Scandinavia. According to Ingrid Verheula, Niels Bosmaa, Fonnie van der Nol and Tommy Wong, to create one's own business is encouraged earlier in the USA than in France and American teachers tackle this topic also at high school. In fact high school students have classes and projects about entrepreneurship. In France it is not true, French students begin to tackle the question of entrepreneurship only in the university or in business school. Moreover, this teaching varies depending on whether the student is in a particular component of the French education system. It emerges from many studies on this topic that the entrepreneurship teaching in France is not structured or only a few. Indeed it stays the most of the time the work of solitary teachers and without results on the students. Actually, the entrepreneurship’s teaching in France lacks recognition and it is not regards as real matter. So I do not know if you have the same opinion as me but I think that if we introduce as early as possible the entrepreneurship’s teaching in the education system, that will change student’s mentality, their aversion to the risk and we could see come out a whole new generation of entrepreneurs ready to create and to set up new businesses. What do you think about that?
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It should be a great idea to teach entrepreneurship from school in France in order to foster entrepreneurship in mentality. But I am not sure that this initiative is going to solve the real problem. Because in France the government is very heavy and omnipotent. It helps people who are unemployed in providing money during a long period of time. This device makes people so lazy. I that the culture has to change and the government has to implement some laws and rules in order to encourage entrepreneuship.
Gilles
Gilles is right. Even if our social system is quiet good and protects well our citizens, i believe that we are over-protected.
As long as people get to much money when they are unemployed, they will not attempt to set up their own company as they do not really need money. (Assuming the fact that small entrepreneur do not earn a lot of money)
I think people who start a business in france are more driven by opportunity and challenge than necessity.
Hey guys, I find your speech quite dangerous, indeed according to what I read above, French are lazy and overprotected (What a cliché!). What do you propose for this? No social system!? I think we (French) have a lot to learn from American, but not when it’s about social system!
It’s true that some people take advantage of the good French social system, but it’s only a minority. Besides, I’m not sure that “breaking” the social system will increase the level of entrepreneurship.
However Gilles, you’re right when you say that the government is very heavy, and it has to make some reforms, but not at the expense of the French citizens. The current cut in taxes for promoting entrepreneurship seems a good start. Besides, even if it’s only a part of the solution, I think that teaching entrepreneurship earlier at school is a very good idea to change mentalities.
François
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