Built with the institutions that build ecosystems.
Long-term collaborations with ministries, multilaterals, universities and ecosystem operators across Africa, the Gulf and Europe — and the open data infrastructures the observatory is joined to.
Ministries and multilaterals
The institutions that use the observatory's measurements in policy, allocation and reporting.
- Ministry of Communications & IT — State of QatarQatar
Reference engagement in the Gulf: ecosystem mapping and capability reading for Qatar's diversification agenda.
- UN Economic Commission for AfricaAfrica
Continental policy dialogue; gender × ecosystem reading aligned with the Africa Gender Index.
- OpenAfrican Development BankAfrica
Indicators of entrepreneurial-ecosystem maturity for allocation; Africa Gender Index alignment.
- OpenAfrican Union
Policy dialogue on continental innovation infrastructure and reporting on member states.
- OpenUNESCO
Research collaboration on entrepreneurship education and the African knowledge ecosystem.
Universities and research
Where the framework is taught, stress-tested and replicated.
- HEC Paris in DohaQatar
Executive education and capability mapping in the Gulf.
- IAE FranceFrance
Network of French university business schools — academic relay for the framework.
Utrecht UniversityNetherlandsAcademic partner — the ecosystem-elements tradition (Stam & van de Ven) that the AEEI reading builds on.
IAE LyonFranceAcademic partner.
Chaire ETIFranceResearch chair partner.
- OpenUM6P — Mohammed VI Polytechnic UniversityMorocco
Research on Morocco's ecosystem; flagship case study in the atlas.
- OpenESCP Business SchoolEurope
Executive programmes on cross-border entrepreneurship.
- OpenAUC — American University in CairoEgypt
On-the-ground research support for the Egypt diagnostic.
- OpenHamad Bin Khalifa UniversityQatar
Qatar Foundation partner; ecosystem analysis for the Gulf cluster.
Operators and the galaxy
Organizations that share data, host fieldwork and co-build interventions — including ADALIA and EERS, the two other levers of the OSE galaxy.
- OpenADALIA InstituteMorocco
Hybrid higher school of the OSE galaxy — trains the teams who use the framework.
- OpenOCP GroupMorocco
Strategic industry partner for North Africa; longitudinal data on agri-tech ventures.
- OpenCGEMMorocco
Federation of Moroccan enterprises — bridge to private-sector ecosystem actors.
- OpenQatar FoundationQatar
Ecosystem orchestrator for Qatar; central to the Gulf hyper-connected case study.
Data sources joined to the base
The observatory measures its own base; institutional, gender and outcome variables come from these public infrastructures and are documented in every replication.
- OpenWorld Bank — Worldwide Governance Indicators
Rule enforcement (WGI 2023) — the « soil » variable of COTEE, joined to every country in the base.
- OpenWorld Bank — Gender Statistics
FLFP, Women Business & the Law, female tertiary enrolment, parliamentary seats — the inputs of the Aligned Gender Index.
- OpenWorld Bank — development outcomes
New business density, FDI, patents, high-tech exports — the outcome variables of the COTEE replication.
- OpenAEEI — Africa Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index
Stam's 10 elements, 7 measured pillars, 54 African countries — integrated into OSE Expert.
- OpenAfrica Gender Index (AfDB / UNECA)
The reference the Aligned Gender Index is calibrated on.
- OpenWikidata
Qualified organization identifiers and structured open data.
- OpenGeoNames
Geographic coordinates for sub-national (urban module) mapping.
- OpenOEC — Observatory of Economic Complexity
Methodological inspiration for visual ecosystem mapping.
EERS — the research school of the galaxy
Six editions across Europe and Africa; calls for papers, scholar network, peer-reviewed contributions to the science of entrepreneurial ecosystems.
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