I haven't found this to be the case in the Nordic countries, at least. You can't walk around a corner without tripping over a startup incubator, and there's a lot of interest, among both techies and the public (and the government), about where the "next Nokia", "next Spotify", "next Rovio", etc. are going to come from. Germans also lionize their famed "Mittelstand", which is not made up of Valley-style startups, but is still definitely entrepreneurial.
In Scandinavia there is a small vocal subculture talking "startup". It is however a very small subculture. The majority of employees you will encounter will not be very entrepreneurial.
But they won't be 'ambivalent', will they? I mean, I've never met anyone here in the Netherlands that has negative feelings or things to say about startups or the like. In fact quite the opposite: my partner's entire family are all involved in them.
As I said there are some very entrepreneurial people in Denmark. It's just the majority of people will have ambivalent relationship to it. Meaning that while they might say the idea sounds cool, they will be strict about leaving early from work to pick up the kids, worry more about what courses the company can sponsor and getting their 7 weeks of vacation in than what they personally can do to make sure it's successful.
The entrepreneurial (and geeky) Danish people are extremely hard working though.
I haven't found this to be the case in the Nordic countries, at least. You can't walk around a corner without tripping over a startup incubator, and there's a lot of interest, among both techies and the public (and the government), about where the "next Nokia", "next Spotify", "next Rovio", etc. are going to come from. Germans also lionize their famed "Mittelstand", which is not made up of Valley-style startups, but is still definitely entrepreneurial.