CU Denver's Arlen Meyers is the CEO of the
Society of Physician Entrepreneurs . He says there is an innate mindset in entrepreneurs.
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Can entrepreneurial skills be learned? I think teaching, developing and perfecting entrepreneurial skills, attitudes and abilities is a combination of nature and nurture, and I've dedicated a lot of time testing the hypothesis.
The analogy I use is based on my experience as an academic surgeon at the University of Colorado Denver teaching students, residents and fellows. I've concluded that I can't teach someone to be a surgeon, but I can teach him or her how to do surgery. The surgical mindset is innate. As we all know, we self-select our medical careers based on the right fit between our inborn abilities and the demands of the specialty. You can call it finding the right medical personality or identifying with our mentors or teachers, but, in the end, we all find the right fit to match our talents or move on.
Similarly, I can teach someone the skills involved with entrepreneurship and how to create a life science business. I can't teach him/her how to be an entrepreneur. I think those abilities and talents are hard-wired. They can be developed, practiced and refined, but ultimately, if you don't have the right stuff, you will struggle and fail.
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