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🇧🇭 Bahrain

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Available on custom request. Smaller ecosystem but historically pioneering in MENA Fintech.

251
Total actors
201
OSE quality score
35 %
with funding
6 %
with hosting
Live data · Bahrain
251
OSE actors mapped
#2 in Middle East by actors · #2 by quality (of 3)
Median founding year 2006
Top hub cities
  1. 1.Al Manama138
  2. 2.Manama46
  3. 3.Jid Hafs9
Al Manama + Manama = 73 % of actors
201
OSE quality score
world average 211
35 % with funding · 6 % with hosting
L1 · Technical
65
L2 · Cognitive
223
L3 · Relational
181
L4 · Symbolic
430
L5 · Psychological
104

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 Bahrain 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 0.54 (rules enforced); built support 29 %, base endowment 64 %; 22 % of actors created by the State or donors; 7 urban modules on 248 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 0.68 (world 0.87); service redundancy SRI 2.02 (world 2.01); VRIO coverage 0.20 (world 0.21); effectiveness EES 0.67 (world 0.72); network density 0.483. The report then applies the readings — resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index — to Bahrain.

Gender

Aligned Gender Index × supply

AGI 58/100 (economic 55, social 80, representation 40), rank 87 / 176 globally; 3 women-focused structures out of 251 actors (12 ‰). 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).
Custom scope

Bahrain report — available on demand

No published Bahrain report yet, but its ecosystem is mapped at baseline level. Tell us what you need — full diagnostic, module deep-dive, comparative study — and we scope it together.

What's inside

What a Bahrain report would contain

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

Executive summary
Key findings and five strategic recommendations
COTEE profile
Bahrain: 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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