Genetics Causes Half Of Entrepreneurship

Genetic causes of behavior matter because they influence us right now. But they will matter even more in the future when offspring genetic engineering becomes a reality. I think it unlikely that people will consciously choose the same frequencies of genetic variations for their offspring as occur naturally. Every human nature that has some genetic causes is going to become either more or less frequent when people can choose which genetic variations to give their offspring. Hence every report about genetic causes of some human behavior is a report about something humans do that they'll become either more or less inclined to do in the future. Will parents choose to use genetic engineering make their kids more entrepreneurial?

Scott Shane, the Mixon Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management; Nicos Nicolaou, a lecturer in entrepreneurship at the Tanaka School of Business of Imperial College London; and Janice Hunkin, Lynn Cherkas, and Tim Spector of the Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology Unit at St Thomas' Hospital in London, home of the UK Twin registry of over 10,000 twins collaborated in this unique study. They compared rates of entrepreneurship between and among more than 1,200 pairs of identical and fraternal twins in the U.K and conclude that nearly half 48 percent of an individual's propensity to become self-employed is genetic.