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🇲🇦 Morocco

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Africa’s most interconnected ecosystem. Uniquely driven by a private-sector triad (UM6P-OCP-CGEM). Casablanca + Rabat = 84% of actors.

264
Total actors
125
Active 2020–2024
508.3
OSE Quality Score
33 years
Data depth
Live data · Morocco
604
OSE actors mapped
Top 3 hub cities
  1. 1.Casablanca238
  2. 2.Rabat234
  3. 3.Marrakech21
192.3
OSE global score
#5 in Africa

The urban modules matter more than the national envelope: 68.4 % of composition variance sits within countries (COTEE, H4).

The science in the report

How Morocco is read — COTEE, meta-organization, gender, AEEI

A country report does not add up a score. It reads the ecosystem as a cultivated order: the soil (rule enforcement) conditions what the seed (actors present) and the gardener (built support) can produce — then measures the meta-organization, gender inclusion and the AEEI pillars on the same grid.

COTEE profile

Soil · seed · gardener

Enforcement -0.20 (rules weakly applied); built support 31 %, base endowment 63 %; 21 % of actors created by the State or donors; 8 urban modules. Expected creation 1.5 → 4 new firms per 1,000 adults if rules were enforced: the soil, not the seed, is the binding constraint.

Meta-organization

Architecture × substance

Coverage (CI), functional differentiation (FDI), membership turnover, network density, VRIO coverage, service redundancy (SRI) and effectiveness (EES) — then the readings: resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index. Each value is positioned against the world figure.

Gender

Aligned Gender Index × supply

AGI 50/100, rank 21 / 53 in Africa and 112 / 176 globally; 2 women-focused structures out of 604 actors (3.3 ‰). Read next to the continental picture: mean 49, social dimension weakest (19/100), economic strongest (63/100).

AEEI × Stam's elements

Composite, pillars, COTEE re-reading

Composite 3.47 / 7, rank 3 / 30, percentile 7. Strengths: talent & knowledge (0.77), infrastructure (0.68), finance (0.39, +0.28 vs mean). Weaknesses: networks & intermediaries (0.18), demand (0.26). Each pillar is sorted into Soil, Seed, Gardener or Environment and read conditionally on enforcement.

The cultivation plane — predicted venture creation by regimeFour quadrants crossing rule enforcement and support apparatus. Predicted new firms per 1,000 working-age adults: apparatus builders 1.3 under weak rules and 6.4 under enforced rules; endowment-based ecosystems 1.5 and 4.0.Overlay riskApparatus builder · Rules weak1.3new firms / 1,000 adultsCultivated orderApparatus builder · Rules enforced6.4new firms / 1,000 adultsDormant endowmentEndowment-based · Rules weak1.5new firms / 1,000 adultsEndowed orderEndowment-based · Rules enforced4.0new firms / 1,000 adultsGardener · support apparatusbuilderendowmentSoil · rule enforcement (WGI 2023)weak →→ enforced
Predicted creation per 1,000 working-age adults. The apparatus only pays where rules bind: 1.3 → 6.4 for apparatus builders, 1.5 → 4.0 for endowment-based ecosystems. Source: COTEE, replicated on the OSE base (111 countries, WGI 2023 + World Bank outcomes).
AEEI · Africa Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index

The 10 elements of Stam, measured

Morocco scored on the ten entrepreneurial-ecosystem elements (Stam & van de Ven, 2021), grouped into 7 pillars and re-read through the COTEE framework on Expert.

AEEI profile
#3
Rank / 54 Africa
3.47
Composite score / 7
Top tier
Tier
SoilFormal institutions
0.68 (+13)
SoilEntrepreneurship culture
0.51 (+23)
SeedFinance
0.39 (+28)
SeedTalent & knowledge
0.77 (+45)
GardenerNetworks & services
0.18 (+4)
EnvironmentPhysical infrastructure
0.68 (+33)
EnvironmentDemand
0.26 (+11)
New on OSE Expert

See these elements re-read through COTEE

On Expert, the AEEI elements are sorted into COTEE layers — Soil (rules), Seed (contents), Gardener (apparatus) — and read conditionally: contents only pay off where rules bind.

See Morocco in Expert

Source: AEEI — Africa Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index (africa.ecosystem.build), 2026. Framework: the ten elements of Stam & van de Ven (2021). Delta = points vs Africa average.

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What's inside

What's inside the Morocco report

The same twelve sections for every country, computed on the latest requalified data.

Executive summary
Key findings and five strategic recommendations
COTEE profile
Morocco: enforcement regime, built support vs endowment, urban modules, predicted creation
Meta-organization measures
CI, FDI, turnover, density, VRIO, SRI, EES and the Architecture × Substance readings
Gender
Aligned Gender Index (economic, social, representation) × women-focused supply
AEEI × Stam's elements
Composite, rank, 7 pillars vs Africa average, re-read through COTEE
Network analysis
Communities, centralities, co-occurrence, robustness
Ecosystem map
All actors plotted with sub-roles and connections
Layers & boosts
Profile on 5 layers and 14 boosts — never summed
Comparative benchmark
vs continent and income tier
Longitudinal trends
10+ years of evolution by layer
Gap analysis
Critical gaps with priority levels
Methodology annex
Peer-reviewed framework, sources, data quality
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