The following story with its links ran in CASE Daily (Case's online newpaper) today. Do feel like you have entrepreneurial genes? I think I do! Please post your thoughts
"Do genes influence who will be entrepreneurs?"
ABC News (Reuters), June 5, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2041245 [1]
Forget family influence and upbringing. When it comes to being an entrepreneur, genes seem to play an important role, scientists said on Monday... By comparing self-employment in 609 pairs of identical twins, who share all the same genes, and 657 pairs of non-identical twins Spector and scientists at Imperial College, London and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland analyzed the impact of genetics and environment on entrepreneurs.
Also ran in the Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR2006060500558.html [2]
Reuters at http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-06-
05T172652Z_01_L0549032_RTRUKOC_0_US-SCIENCE-ENTREPRENEURS.xml [3]
Links:
[1] http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2041245
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR2006060500558.html
[3] http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-06-05T172652Z_01_L0549032_RTRUKOC_0_US-SCIENCE-ENTREPRENEURS.xml