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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 -0.04 (rules enforced); built support 13 %, base endowment 82 %; 9 % of actors created by the State or donors; 10 urban modules on 1,283 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.
Coverage CI 100 % (world 100 %); functional differentiation FDI 0.62 (world 0.87); service redundancy SRI 1.44 (world 2.01); VRIO coverage 0.20 (world 0.21); effectiveness EES 0.67 (world 0.72); network density 0.255. The report then applies the readings — resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index — to South Africa.
AGI 63/100 (economic 69, social 30, representation 89), rank 7 / 53 in Africa and 71 / 176 globally; 7 women-focused structures out of 1,292 actors (5.4 ‰). Read next to the continental picture: mean 49, social dimension weakest (19/100), economic strongest (64/100).
Composite 3.87 / 7, rank 2 / 30, percentile 3 (top tier). Strengths: finance (0.89, +0.78 vs mean), physical infrastructure (0.78, +0.42 vs mean), formal institutions (0.63). Weaknesses: culture (0.24), networks & intermediaries (0.29). Each pillar is sorted into Soil, Seed, Gardener or Environment and read conditionally on enforcement.
South Africa 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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