It can take 20 years to change a culture to boost a nation's entrepreneurialism..

What is required to build the most favourable environment for entrepreneurs? This was one of the themes explored during the recent 4th World Entrepreneurship Forum held in Singapore. Founded by French business school EM Lyon, accountancy firm KPMG and Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, the forum is designed as a global think-tank aiming to explore entrepreneurship in practice as well as creating a worldwide community.

The forum took 120 entrepreneurs from 70 countries
and found there is actually an almost universal…