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🇨🇮 Ivory Coast

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Available on custom request. Abidjan emerging as a francophone tech hub.

256
Total actors
225
OSE quality score
9 %
with funding
8 %
with hosting
Live data · Ivory Coast
256
OSE actors mapped
#16 in Africa by actors · #42 by quality (of 56)
Median founding year 2016
Top hub cities
  1. 1.Abidjan151
  2. 2.Yamoussoukro78
  3. 3.Bouaké4
Abidjan + Yamoussoukro = 89 % of actors
225
OSE quality score
world average 211
9 % with funding · 8 % with hosting
L1 · Technical
68
L2 · Cognitive
426
L3 · Relational
293
L4 · Symbolic
303
L5 · Psychological
35

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 Ivory Coast 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 -0.40 (rules weakly applied); built support 31 %, base endowment 63 %; 21 % of actors created by the State or donors; 2 urban modules on 251 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.

Meta-organization

Architecture × substance

Coverage CI 100 % (world 100 %); functional differentiation FDI 0.84 (world 0.87); service redundancy SRI 2.14 (world 2.01); VRIO coverage 0.23 (world 0.21); effectiveness EES 0.71 (world 0.72); network density 0.133. The report then applies the readings — resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index — to Ivory Coast.

Gender

Aligned Gender Index × supply

AGI 39/100 (economic 77, social 12, representation 27), rank 42 / 53 in Africa and 150 / 176 globally; 0 women-focused structures out of 256 actors (0 ‰). 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

Composite 2.37 / 7, rank 13 / 30, percentile 41 (middle tier). Strengths: formal institutions (0.67), culture (0.61, +0.32 vs mean), physical infrastructure (0.40). Weaknesses: networks & intermediaries (0.07), finance (0.10). 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

Côte d'Ivoire 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
#13
Rank / 30 Africa
2.37
Composite score / 7
Middle tier
Tier
SoilFormal institutions
0.67 (+12)
SoilEntrepreneurship culture
0.61 (+32)
SeedFinance
0.10 (-1)
SeedTalent & knowledge
0.36 (+4)
GardenerNetworks & services
0.07 (-7)
EnvironmentPhysical infrastructure
0.40 (+4)
EnvironmentDemand
0.16 (+1)
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 Côte d'Ivoire 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.

Custom scope

Ivory Coast report — available on demand

No published Ivory Coast 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 Ivory Coast 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
Ivory Coast: 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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