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A training platform for policy makers in the startup ecosystem that provides valuable knowledge and resources to help shape policies that promote entrepreneurship and innovation.
The Taskforce was created from a collective need voiced by the African startup ecosystem to cultivate connections, enable the flow of information, and provide a venue where specific expertise, learnings and best practice can be shared.
A centralized repository that provides policymakers with information and resources related to the startup ecosystem. to ain in making informed decisions about the creation and implementation of policies that support startups and promote innovation.
This toolkit is designed for forward-thinking policy innovators that want to transform their entrepreneurial ecosystems and support their governments with policy reform through deliberation and cutting-edge evidence.
The Benchmark report identifies 22 African SBAs and Startup Acts, benchmarks them and identifies 15 other instruments for comparison. Find out what the highlights are and learn from our recommendations.
A deliberate approach to centre African female entrepreneurs in policymaking and provide a candid snapshot of life as a female entrepreneur in Africa
The Ecosystem Observatory supports better insights into the strengths and weaknesses of entrepreneurship conditions in African countries. The aim is to identify areas for improvement to better support entrepreneurial ecosystems, using the newly developed African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index.
Our first Female Founder Takeover event took place in Kigali, Rwanda, as part of AfriLabs’ 2023 Annual Gathering, a key event in Africa’s tech and entrepreneurial calendar to drive sustainable growth and innovation. The AfriLabs Gathering brought together key ecosystem…
Which elements stimulate entrepreneurship in a city, region or country? By mapping out the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, it becomes clear how relevant factors and actors influence each other – enabling or constraining entrepreneurship. How can you use these insights to improve…
Despite the popularity of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach in science and policy, there is a scarcity of credible, accurate and comparable metrics of entrepreneurial ecosystems. This is a severe shortcoming for both scientific progress and successful policy. In this paper,…
Entrepreneurial ecosystems have become a prominent concept, yet in its current state, the concept itself represents a paradox. While it draws on a rich intellectual history and provides an opportunity to synthesize different strands of research, it is also under-theorized…
There is a growing interest in ecosystems as an approach for understanding the context of entrepreneurship at the macro level of an organizational community. It consists of all the interdependent actors and factors that enable and constrain entrepreneurship within a…
Why Africa’s ‘Big Four’ are not the ‘Best Four’. A few years ago, The Economist concluded that Africa has enterprising people but too few businesses. Africans are far more likely to be self-employed than people in richer parts of the…
A guide for entrepreneurship policy-making processes, developed in collaboration with Smart Africa. The Guide offers a comprehensive series of steps that a policy maker could follow to develop, implement and monitor an entrepreneurship policy reform. This was developed in response…
A case study of the ADDIS Decision Thinking methodology applied in Nigeria to support the co-creation of the Nigeria Startup Act. The case study illuminates several heuristics for innovative policy-making developed by i4Policy under the ICT58 Horizon 2020 grant for…
This document guides African policymakers in creating effective policies to enhance their ICT start-up and innovation ecosystems. It offers practical advice and a value-based framework for developing national pro-ICT start-up and innovation policies tailored to the African context. Drawing on…