| Sumario: | The “Washington consensus” approach to development, which encourages other nations to emulate American capitalism, misses one crucial ingredient: the role that entrepreneurs play. Although it cannot be applied wholesale to developing countries, the American economic model should not be abandoned, as some development economists have argued, but it must be improved. The United States has developed a multifaceted “system” for nurturing high-impact entrepreneurship, a system that, with the right development policies, might be cultivated in many other nations as well. Spurring growth in the developing world will require an understanding of the American entrepreneurial system, which involves four sectors of the economy: high-impact entrepreneurs, large mature firms, the government, and universities. The writer explores the features of this four-sector model.
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