Having a concentration of mature technology players but very little startup activity is precisely why Mauritius makes my list of interesting technology ecosystems to review. It is easy to dismiss Mauritius’s technology arena as simply a corporate IT and business process outsourcing world instead of a startup ecosystem. But that perception has too many blindspots. The island nation may house more business process outsourcing firms than what qualifies as a startup. But it is certainly not a laggard. It has just being too concerned with regular business administration, its bread and butter, versus pursuing innovation on its shores. And it knows this. Hosting some of Africa’s largest IT infrastructure players is a flex, but Mauritius wants more. And it wants this “more” to extend and enable its robust financial services sector.