First comprehensive diagnostic of Kinshasa’s entrepreneurial support landscape, with priority interventions identified.
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.
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.
Enforcement -1.50 (rules weakly applied); built support 18 %, base endowment 76 %; 8 % of actors created by the State or donors; 5 urban modules on 288 actors. Expected creation 1.5 → 4.0 new firms per 1,000 adults if rules were enforced: the soil, not the seed, is the binding constraint.
Coverage CI 100 % (world 100 %); functional differentiation FDI 0.80 (world 0.87); service redundancy SRI 2.72 (world 2.01); VRIO coverage 0.26 (world 0.21); effectiveness EES 0.70 (world 0.72); network density —. The report then applies the readings — resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index — to DR Congo.
AGI 34/100 (economic 70, social 5, representation 26), rank 50 / 53 in Africa and 165 / 176 globally; 4 women-focused structures out of 299 actors (13.4 ‰). Read next to the continental picture: mean 49, social dimension weakest (19/100), economic strongest (64/100).
Composite —, rank not ranked. Strengths: formal institutions (0.44), talent & knowledge (0.36), demand (0.24). Weaknesses: culture (0.00, −0.28 vs mean), networks & intermediaries (0.01). Each pillar is sorted into Soil, Seed, Gardener or Environment and read conditionally on enforcement.
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the 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.
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.
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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