According to new research, entrepreneurship ability could all be down to your testosterone levels. Nicos Nicolaou, head of entrepreneurship and innovation at Warwick Business School, concluded that high testosterone levels can give individuals the push they need to work for themselves. "There has been a lot of discussion as to whether business behaviours are learned or are down to biology, and our research shows it is indeed possible that certain business behaviours can at least in part be attributed to biological influences." In the paper, Testosterone and Tendency to Engage in Self-Employment, due to be published in the journal Management Science, Nicolaou reports on three studies to explore the connection between testosterone and self-employment. The first concluded that there was a marginal correlation between testosterone and self-employment among males, but not among females. The second found that a low ratio of the length of subjects’ index fingers to that of their ring finge...
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