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Reports · Central Africa

🇨🇲 Cameroon

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477
Total actors
248
OSE quality score
9 %
with funding
6 %
with hosting
Live data · Cameroon
477
OSE actors mapped
#7 in Africa by actors · #36 by quality (of 56)
Median founding year 2015
Top hub cities
  1. 1.Yaoundé362
  2. 2.Douala76
  3. 3.Buea13
Yaoundé + Douala = 92 % of actors
248
OSE quality score
world average 211
9 % with funding · 6 % with hosting
L1 · Technical
80
L2 · Cognitive
625
L3 · Relational
225
L4 · Symbolic
225
L5 · Psychological
84

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 Cameroon 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 -0.96 (rules weakly applied); built support 17 %, base endowment 78 %; 10 % of actors created by the State or donors; 5 urban modules on 461 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 0.69 (world 0.87); service redundancy SRI 2.22 (world 2.01); VRIO coverage 0.25 (world 0.21); effectiveness EES 0.68 (world 0.72); network density 0.140. The report then applies the readings — resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index — to Cameroon.

Gender

Aligned Gender Index × supply

AGI 48/100 (economic 59, social 16, representation 68), rank 25 / 53 in Africa and 119 / 176 globally; 1 women-focused structures out of 477 actors (2.1 ‰). 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 2.24 / 7, rank 15 / 30, percentile 48 (middle tier). Strengths: culture (0.66, +0.37 vs mean), formal institutions (0.50), physical infrastructure (0.40). Weaknesses: finance (0.06), demand (0.11). 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

Cameroon 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
#15
Rank / 30 Africa
2.24
Composite score / 7
Middle tier
Tier
SoilFormal institutions
0.50 (-5)
SoilEntrepreneurship culture
0.66 (+37)
SeedFinance
0.06 (-5)
SeedTalent & knowledge
0.36 (+4)
GardenerNetworks & services
0.14 (0)
EnvironmentPhysical infrastructure
0.40 (+4)
EnvironmentDemand
0.11 (-3)
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 Cameroon 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

Cameroon report — available on demand

No published Cameroon 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 Cameroon 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
Cameroon: 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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