This is a practical guide for the organizations shaping entrepreneurship and innovation across the region. It is a core knowledge product of CARIBEquity Conecta Caribbean, CARIBEquity’s capacity-building initiative for innovation ecosystem actors, co-funded by the European Union and IDB Lab. Developed as part of CARIBEquity, the Playbook responds to a shared reality: ecosystem actors across the Caribbean are working in fragmented markets, with limited resources, and in contexts shaped by climate vulnerability, migration, and small market size — often without tools designed for these conditions.

This Playbook brings together regionally grounded insight, global best practices, and hands-on tools to support Entrepreneurship Support Organizations (ESOs), policymakers, funders, universities, and ecosystem leaders to design stronger programs, make better decisions, and collaborate more effectively across islands.