Designing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for a Greener Future through Review of Frameworks Policies and Practices with Insights from Oman

As environmental priorities reshape global development agendas, sustainable entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a strategic pathway to innovation, employment, and ecological resilience. Qualitative content analysis of 53 peer-reviewed articles and institutional reports published between 2013 and 2024 is applied in the study to investigate how entrepreneurial ecosystems are structured to enable green innovation. The analysis looks for patterns across geographical settings to synthesize prominent themes related to stakeholder coordination, policy levers, institutional support, and regional adaptation. This study is guided by the following research questions: (1) What design features characterize successful sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems across global contexts? (2) How are stakeholder coordination, policy instruments, and institutional support structured to enable green entrepreneurship? (3) How can these global insights be adapted to Oman’s unique socio-economic and policy landscape under Vision 2040? Findings underscore the roles played by multi-actor governance, fiscal and regulatory levers, and academia-industry partnerships in enabling sustainability-driven entrepreneurship. For emerging economies such as Oman—where Vision 2040 demands economic diversification and environmental sustainability—ecosystem-level interventions are particularly important. The study formulates a conceptual framework capturing global lessons for local strategies in catalyzing cleantech, agri-innovation, and circular economy startups. The framework offers actionable advice to policymakers, educators, incubators, and investors in embedding sustainability in entrepreneurial ecosystems, with implications for SDG and national transformation strategy alignment. KEYWORDS: Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Qualitative Content Analysis, Green Innovation, Policy Instruments, Institutional Support, Multi-Stakeholder Governance, Vision 2040 (Oman), Cleantech, Circular Economy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)