I have worked with the youth for ten years on the front line of entrepreneurship education for the sake of establishing TiC100 Start-up Competition and Global TiC Talentrepreneurship Innovation and Collaboration Association International. I am glad to have this opportunity today, to be able to share with you some of my ideas and findings through this speech.
First of all, I would like to make a more specific annotation on the difference between employability and entrepreneurship. According to theory and application practice, I would like to explain the meaning of entrepreneurship in a simple sentence. “Entrepreneurship is the highest representation of employability.” The capacity accumulated by Taiwan in the last 20 years had been the honor that we hold. However, the definition of an entrepreneur with entrepreneurial spirits is still very vague. Thus, when it comes to questions such as: “Who can be a real entrepreneur?” and “How can a person become a successful entrepreneur in the future,” there are still a lot of misunderstanding and false interpretation.
The key difference between a business owner and an entrepreneur is that a business owner only opens a company that aims at making a profit without any innovation, but an entrepreneur’s enterprise is established through the process of constant innovation. What is the meaning of innovation? Innovation represents the ability to overcome all kinds of obstacles, and then to create new products, new services, new procedures, or new business models in the process of running business. In the past, lack of education mechanism for nurturing entrepreneurs had made entrepreneurs in the world unsure of the way to succeed in starting an enterprise. They can only strive to overcome the difficulties through the accumulation of personal experiences and unceasing trial and error. Therefore, many people think that there must be certain unique personal traits for a successful entrepreneur. There are also academic studies that endeavor to probe into the typical personalities of successful entrepreneurs through personality analysis models.
However, according to my observation of the early development of a lot of successful entrepreneurs and my past engagement in entrepreneurship incubation and education for the youth, I would like to break the myth for you. In fact, the personality traits of successful entrepreneurs are all different. The key point factor of their success is the mature entrepreneurial mind and behavior which they develop through the frustration and experiences along the way in the establishment of their own business and enterprise. Mind and behavior is different from personality traits. Most people can develop outstanding entrepreneurial attitude and capacity through appropriate entrepreneurship education and training.
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