Teenagers can innovate twice as fast as adults
Business
In the Netherlands, teenagers are launching thousands of companies before they finish high school, fueled by a culture that treats business plans as a mandatory part of growing up.
While many see adolescence as a time of rebellion, Dutch teenagers are channeling that energy into the boardroom. The Netherlands currently boasts twelve thousand founders under the age of twenty, a density of youth entrepreneurship nearly triple that of its neighbors. This surge is driven by a national curriculum that requires students to draft professional business plans by age fifteen, treating the ability to start a company as a fundamental life skill rather than a rare ambition.