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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

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Among the highest-quality ecosystems in the study, with a strong technical support layer. Mubadala plays a direct connector role.

747
Total actors
193
OSE quality score
14 %
with funding
5 %
with hosting
Live data · United Arab Emirates
747
OSE actors mapped
#1 in Middle East by actors · #3 by quality (of 3)
Median founding year 2013
Top hub cities
  1. 1.Al Manhal315
  2. 2.Dubai227
  3. 3.Abu Dhabi98
Al Manhal + Dubai = 73 % of actors
193
OSE quality score
world average 211
14 % with funding · 5 % with hosting
L1 · Technical
25
L2 · Cognitive
561
L3 · Relational
177
L4 · Symbolic
195
L5 · Psychological
5

The urban modules matter more than the national envelope: 68.4 % of composition variance sits within countries (COTEE, H4). Live from Expert · pipeline 17 Aug 2026.

The science in the report

How United Arab Emirates 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 0.83 (rules enforced); built support 19 %, base endowment 71 %; 16 % of actors created by the State or donors; 10 urban modules on 746 actors. Expected creation 4.0 new firms per 1,000 adults under the current, enforced regime: the soil already lets the seed and the gardener pay off.

Meta-organization

Architecture × substance

Coverage CI 100 % (world 100 %); functional differentiation FDI 0.71 (world 0.87); service redundancy SRI 1.50 (world 2.01); VRIO coverage 0.19 (world 0.21); effectiveness EES 0.69 (world 0.72); network density 0.680. The report then applies the readings — resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index — to United Arab Emirates.

Gender

Aligned Gender Index × supply

AGI 80/100 (economic 68, social 73, representation 100), rank 19 / 176 globally; 8 women-focused structures out of 747 actors (10.7 ‰). Read next to the continental picture: mean 49, social dimension weakest (19/100), economic strongest (64/100).

AEEI × Stam's elements

Composite, pillars, COTEE re-reading

The AEEI covers 54 African countries (30 ranked); where a country is outside its scope, the report documents the ten elements of Stam & van de Ven from the OSE base and open statistics instead.

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).
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What's inside

What's inside the United Arab Emirates report

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

Executive summary
Key findings and five strategic recommendations
COTEE profile
United Arab Emirates: 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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