Entrepreneurship
Dubai
   

The Issues:
      If the answer is environment, what infrastructure is required to nurture entrepreneurs? Does a low tax rate encourage risk-taking? Or does the absence of social safety nets drive entrepreneurship? Is entre-preneurship ultimately something that can really be taught? Or is it a skill that people are born with?

What difference does it make if entrepreneurs are home-grown or if they are foreign?

Do governments need to get involved? Does less regulation mean a better environment for entrepreneurs?

Answers
Our panellists aren’t the only ones with something interesting to add to the arguments on this issue. We want to hear your opinions too. Use the forums on this website to join in the entrepreneurship debate now and your comments could influence the questions put to the panelists in the broadcast CNBC International debate taking place on 23 March.

     
   
In the second debate of the 'Questions for the future' series, we ask a panel in Dubai for answers to some of the questions around entrepreneurship.

Some thirty years ago, Dubai was just a small, old-world port. Today it is a modern, thriving, cosmopolitan, international business centre. This dramatic change is a startling demonstration of what entrepreneurship can achieve.

Questions
Many other countries would like to emulate Dubai’s success. But what makes a good entrepreneur? Is entrepreneurship a product of education? Or of environment? Or is it a matter of gift and personal ambition?