Should we be encouraging entrepreneurship?

Inafishbowl.com founder and entrepreneur Toby Reid recently posted on the business reality website an opinion piece entitled 'Should we be encouraging entrepreneurship?'.

The article brings up some interesting points and some perhaps
controversial curve-balls in terms of what we, as a collective 'public',
seem to think we should be doing and what would, in fact, be beneficial
to the individuals who are expected, by some, to be the saviours of the
British economy.

Should we, therefore, be encouraging entrepreneurship? Or is the
encouragement we give turning potential entrepreneurs into 'lemmings' -
each blindly stepping out into the unknown and finding nothing below
their feet but a huge drop? Can we support entrepreneurs, and will LEPs
help with this?

I'd be interested to hear your opinions.