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🇬🇦 Gabon

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123
Total actors
338
OSE quality score
38 %
with funding
11 %
with hosting
Live data · Gabon
123
OSE actors mapped
#30 in Africa by actors · #3 by quality (of 56)
Median founding year 2012
Top hub cities
  1. 1.Libreville108
  2. 2.Akanda5
  3. 3.Franceville5
Libreville + Akanda = 92 % of actors
338
OSE quality score
world average 211
38 % with funding · 11 % with hosting
L1 · Technical
169
L2 · Cognitive
439
L3 · Relational
431
L4 · Symbolic
431
L5 · Psychological
220

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 Gabon 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 -0.87 (rules weakly applied); built support 36 %, base endowment 52 %; 18 % of actors created by the State or donors; 2 urban modules on 110 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 0.86 (world 0.87); service redundancy SRI 3.62 (world 2.01); VRIO coverage 0.34 (world 0.21); effectiveness EES 0.71 (world 0.72); network density 0.299. The report then applies the readings — resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index — to Gabon.

Gender

Aligned Gender Index × supply

AGI 60/100 (economic 68, social —, representation 51), rank 12 / 53 in Africa and 82 / 176 globally; 1 women-focused structures out of 123 actors (8.1 ‰). 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 —, rank not ranked. Strengths: physical infrastructure (0.64, +0.28 vs mean), formal institutions (0.55), talent & knowledge (0.47). Weaknesses: finance (0.00), demand (0.14). 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

Gabon 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
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Rank / 30 Africa
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Composite score / 7
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Tier
SoilFormal institutions
0.55 (0)
SoilEntrepreneurship culture
0.36 (+7)
SeedFinance
0.00 (-11)
SeedTalent & knowledge
0.47 (+15)
GardenerNetworks & services
0.25 (+11)
EnvironmentPhysical infrastructure
0.64 (+28)
EnvironmentDemand
0.14 (-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 Gabon 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

Gabon report — available on demand

No published Gabon 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 Gabon 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
Gabon: 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
Compare with neighbours

Other ecosystems in Central Africa

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