The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Youth Entrepreneurs in Africa and Emerging Countries

Shantha Indrajith Hikkaduwa Liyanage ()
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Shantha Indrajith Hikkaduwa Liyanage: Botho University, Faculty of Business and Accounting

Chapter Chapter 7 in Strengthening Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa and Emerging Markets, 2026, pp 183-220 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Youth entrepreneurs are vulnerable in Africa because of fragilities in entrepreneurship education mechanism and financial and non-financial entrepreneurial support mechanism more fully discussed in Chaps. 3 and 4 . After that Chaps. 5 and 6 introduced a third mechanism for strengthening youth entrepreneurship in Africa. This chapter deals with an ecosystem for youth entrepreneurship because they cannot be competitive in the prevailing entrepreneurial ecosystem evolved for established entrepreneurs. Youth entrepreneurship-centric entrepreneurial ecosystem elements were designed for strengthening youth entrepreneurship.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-32233-3_7

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