OSE is the scientific observatory of entrepreneurship support ecosystems — 60,500+ qualified actors across Africa, MENA, the Gulf and Europe, 14 observed quality indicators, 10+ years of longitudinal data. The evidence governments, DFIs and sovereign funds use to decide.
Scientific council: Audretsch · Sarasvathy · Stam · Chabaud · Krueger
Live from Expert · pipeline 17 Aug 2026
Every framework OSE publishes is reviewed by an international council of ecosystem scholars.
Meet the council
David B. AudretschIndiana University
Saras SarasvathyDarden School, UVA
Erik StamUtrecht UniversityOSE does not publish opinions about ecosystems. It publishes measures — peer-reviewed, replicated on the OSE base, and recomputed as the data moves.
Governance architecture · resource orchestration · institutional contingency. Ecosystem advantage is a governance achievement, not an endowment — in 71 % of countries, architecture runs ahead of substance.
ExploreThe Cultivated Order Theory: built support only pays where rules are enforced — inert as a main effect, powerful as a complement of the institutional regime. Replicated on 111 countries.
ExploreEconomic, social and representation dimensions (0–100), aligned with the Africa Gender Index and crossed with women-focused support structures. Mean 49; social dimension lowest at 19, economic highest at 64.
ExploreStam & van de Ven's 10 elements operationalised by the Africa Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index, integrated in OSE Expert: country profiles, benchmark and insights.
ExploreMost ecosystem reports rest on self-declared surveys and one-off snapshots. OSE was built the other way round — and that is what makes its evidence defensible in committee.
OSE is a loop, not a catalogue. The Observatory qualifies the actors; Expert turns them into decisions; Connect activates the ground; the ground feeds new signal back. Each turn makes the next one sharper.
The Observatory qualifies and tracks every support actor on 14 observed indicators — the scientific source of truth, continuously requalified.
OSE Expert turns the base into decision intelligence: atlas, diagnostics, benchmark, COTEE and gender lenses for governments, DFIs and investors.
OSE Connect matches entrepreneurs with the right structures — applications, NDA, follow-up — and returns live signal on what actually works.
Better rules, better allocation, better programmes: the decisions the Observatory then measures — reading the soil before funding the content.
“Orchestrating is not conducting the orchestra — it is tuning the hall.”
From open public data to entrepreneur matching and decision intelligence — pick the door that fits your role. All three run on the same observatory.
Live atlas, rankings, 4-tab country diagnostics, benchmark up to 6 countries, network analysis, COTEE and gender lenses, the AEEI (Stam's 10 elements). Free, Institutional, Premium, Research and VVIP tiers.
Find the right programme, incubator, accelerator or financing partner; apply with a real NDA; track every application. For entrepreneurs and the structures that support them.
Strategic country reports, custom diagnostics and co-branded national reports — the full scientific output, written for the decision you have to defend.
Strategic country diagnosis, ministerial instance and policy retainer, auditable impact attribution. Read the soil before funding the content, find the urban modules, couple rather than stack, institutionalise what grew.
Eight entry points, one framework. Each page speaks your language — the decision you have to defend, the evidence you need, the format your evaluators accept.
Each card is a live snapshot from api.ose.africa, refreshed with every Expert pipeline run and computed with the 5-layer OSE quality model.
Africa’s largest entrepreneurial ecosystem by volume. Lagos hub-driven, deeply commercial. Full diagnostic in preparation — subscribe to be notified when the report drops. Abuja + Lagos = 94% of actors.
The highest-quality ecosystem in the study. Strong technical support layer; Mubadala plays a direct connector role. Most balanced sub-role distribution: a rare early-to-late continuum. Al Manhal + Dubai = 73% of actors.
Ranked by qualified actors in our database, refreshed with every Expert pipeline run. Pulled from api.ose.africa.
The Cultivated Order Theory predicts new business creation from two things: what a country built (the gardener) and whether its rules hold (the soil). The same apparatus yields 5 times more where rules are enforced.
Release of OSE's first white paper, presenting a data-driven framework to unlock Africa's entrepreneurial potential.
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