2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/99082We prove that the classical Oka property of a complex manifold Y, concerning the existence and homotopy classification of holomorphic mappings from Stein manifolds to Y, is equivalent to a Runge approximation property for holomorphic maps from compact convex sets in Euclidean spaces to Y.To appear in the Annals of MathComplex Variables32E10, 32E30, 32H02, 32Q28text