Could training and education help people to become innovative and entrepreneurial?

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Can training and education help people to become innovative and entrepreneurial? The topic on which I have been instructed to expound, is "training and education could help people to become innovative and entrepreneurial". However, before agreeing with the sentence, I am going to discuss it in the traditional French way of writing essays: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The key-sentence is thus going to become a question: Is it true, that training and education could help people to become innovative and entrepreneurial?

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[...] Education can help people discover that they are entrepreneurial. I have recently met a young CEO of his own company, www.maison- facile.com[5]. He knew since 10 years that he would later create his company because he had the state of mind of an innovator and an entrepreneur. However, he did not know what kind of company he would create. His studies degree in business administration at ESC Toulouse) helped him to know how to create a company: for instance the first thing he did was a market study. [...]

[...] However, I am convinced that education and training are not the key to innovation and entrepreneurship. Yvon Gattaz[3], former representant of French CEOs, said during a lecture I have had the pleasure to attend that when he has created his company with his brother, they were trying to create their first product in a courtyard. However, their knowledge was not the key to success. The key was their willingness to succeed and to make their very small company live. "When you are there, in a courtyard in the 1950s, trying to understand why your 35th prototype does not work, the diploma you got from the best French engineering school does not matter anymore. [...]

[...] There is no Bible of innovation that would explain people how to innovate, in which domain etc Innovation is something that people have the taste for, deeply in their mind. The creator of Facebook did not learn at school how to create a social network and how it works. He guessed that creating one for the students of his university would have been useful. Thus he did so! It is a success because there was a lack for that. Actually, the talent of an innovator is to find what innovation is going to miss if he does not create it. [...]

[...] The module thus helped me to become innovative and entrepreneurial. Ok, you may say, but I could find a better topic than my own example of writing a small essay. Right . Let's consider a man who has a great idea: he is going to create a nation-wide network. That network is going to enable people to get a lot of information and to order many things: they will thus be able to check their bank account or to order a train ticket. [...]

[...] No, training and education do not help people to become innovative and entrepreneurial. They just help people who are already in the right state of mind to achieve what they desire the most: innovation and entrepreneurship. Joyce Wycoff is the co-funder of the innovation network of which website is www.thinksmart.com see the following link : http://thinksmart.typepad.com/good_morning_thinkers/2004/05/defining_innova. html http://www.oboulot.com (in French and English) He is not well known abroad but has played a major role in France. He has "discovered entrepreneurship in the way of Christopher Columbus: it already existed but nobody knew anything about it". [...]