Entrepreneurship plays a strategic role in Mexico’s economic development through employment generation, innovation, and social inclusion. Despite high business creation rates, the Mexican economy suffers from a "missing middle" phenomenon, where ventures remain small, informal, and exhibit low productivity. This paper presents a comprehensive diagnosis of the Mexican entrepreneurial ecosystem (2019–2025), integrating the impact of the COVID-19 recovery and the historic opportunity presented by Nearshoring. Using a mixed-methods approach based on official INEGI statistics, OECD benchmarks, and institutional theory, the study identifies structural barriers such as the "informality trap," lack of scalable financing, and regional asymmetries. This expanded version proposes a robust public policy framework focused on productive scaling, digital transformation, and integration into global value chains (GVCs) under the USMCA (T-MEC) framework. The findings emphasize a shift from "subsistence-based" support to "high-impact" scaling to ensure sustainable macroeconomic growth.
Entrepreneurship, MSMEs, Public Policy, Productive Scaling, Nearshoring, Mexico, USMCA.
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