When I went to france thanks to a university exchange program, I could see the process of entrepreneurship dying in real time. There where plenty of programs to incentivize students to launch startups, and that was the very first symptom that things where going south: why do you have to promote entrepreneurship so intensely if it's supposedly a good thing? Nothing, absolutely nothing that's well liked and successful needs to be promoted. Indeed, all students there start thinkering excitedly on the possibilities, and then incentives drop down to zero when they have to decide between working for a state-owned company or go through the hell of starting a business. The decision is a no-brainer. Same for germany, my friend there told me about the private sector offers vs the state sector. It wasn't even a competition.