Research

Original and Socially Relevant Research Initiatives

Entrepreneurship in Africa has the potential to thrive when support, talent, policy, and funding align. At AGCAE, we explore these drivers through the lens of entrepreneurial ecosystem research.

Reports

Working Papers

Redesigning entrepreneurial ecosystems in South Africa: a collaborative approach to inclusion and resilience

October 16, 2025
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Policy

Contextualizing ecosystem frameworks: a systematic bibliometric analysis of entrepreneurship in Africa

September 5, 2025
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Policy

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building: Co-Creating Solutions in South Africa

June 15, 2025
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

New paper introduces Africa’s 1st entrepreneurial index

May 23, 2025
Analytics, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Policy

Blogs

Building Africa’s entrepreneurship policy on data: Rafiki Murenzi’s PhD Journey

September 9, 2025
Analytics, Data Hub of Hubs, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

‘We must help younger entrepreneurs brave enough to start a business’

July 23, 2025
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Talent

Prestigious win for SA-initiated global entrepreneurship research partnership

June 10, 2025
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

We need to build entrepreneurship policies that WORK

April 3, 2025
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Policy

Research Initiatives
Explore how we support cutting-edge and socially relevant research, foster talent, shape policies, and inspire innovative funding to drive entrepreneurship in Africa.

Support

To achieve high impact from new ventures, it is important to make multi-lateral actors’ interventions strategic, not episodic. We diagnose, strengthen and take a long-term approach on enterprise support organisation (ESO) capacities, experiences and sustainability.

Talent

Knowledge at the intersection of African talent and entrepreneurial ecosystem dynamics in entrepreneurship is scarce and needs more attention. We study the art and science of identifying and nurturing entrepreneurial talent and co-founder teams.

Policy

We use data-driven dialogues to inspire and help reimagine policy process design and instruments in order to progress local ventures either headquartered or co-founded in Africa.

Funding

We contribute to original research and related ecosystem building efforts to help promote and mainstream classical, blended or innovative finance instruments that enable local entrepreneurs to participate and win in their respective economies and international markets.