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🇷🇼 Rwanda

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Available on custom request. Strong policy-driven ecosystem (Vision 2050).

264
Total actors
303
OSE quality score
23 %
with funding
5 %
with hosting
Live data · Rwanda
264
OSE actors mapped
#15 in Africa by actors · #17 by quality (of 56)
Median founding year 2015
Top hub cities
  1. 1.Kigali216
  2. 2.City of Kigali32
  3. 3.Musanze5
Kigali + City of Kigali = 94 % of actors
303
OSE quality score
world average 211
23 % with funding · 5 % with hosting
L1 · Technical
183
L2 · Cognitive
326
L3 · Relational
419
L4 · Symbolic
428
L5 · Psychological
159

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 Rwanda 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 0.20 (rules enforced); built support 41 %, base endowment 49 %; 27 % of actors created by the State or donors; 3 urban modules on 245 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 0.86 (world 0.87); service redundancy SRI 3.59 (world 2.01); VRIO coverage 0.30 (world 0.21); effectiveness EES 0.70 (world 0.72); network density 0.326. The report then applies the readings — resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index — to Rwanda.

Gender

Aligned Gender Index × supply

AGI 61/100 (economic 75, social 8, representation 100), rank 8 / 53 in Africa and 76 / 176 globally; 4 women-focused structures out of 264 actors (15.2 ‰). 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 2.49 / 7, rank 11 / 30, percentile 34 (middle tier). Strengths: formal institutions (0.84, +0.29 vs mean), culture (0.52, +0.23 vs mean), talent & knowledge (0.52, +0.20 vs mean). Weaknesses: networks & intermediaries (0.07), demand (0.09). 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

Rwanda 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
#11
Rank / 30 Africa
2.49
Composite score / 7
Middle tier
Tier
SoilFormal institutions
0.84 (+29)
SoilEntrepreneurship culture
0.52 (+23)
SeedFinance
0.14 (+3)
SeedTalent & knowledge
0.52 (+20)
GardenerNetworks & services
0.07 (-7)
EnvironmentPhysical infrastructure
0.30 (-6)
EnvironmentDemand
0.09 (-5)
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 Rwanda 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.

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Rwanda report — available on demand

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What's inside

What a Rwanda 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
Rwanda: 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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