June Open AIR Network Meeting in Cairo
By Hartland Elcock When SSHRC and IDRC awarded sizeable, prestigious grants to support Open AIR in its third phase of research, the Network’s leadership promptly organized a face-to-face meeting at its...
View ArticleOpen AIR receives multimillion dollar SSHRC Grant
Press Release Open AIR’s Canada hub has been awarded a prestigious multimillion dollar Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. Professors Jeremy de...
View ArticleUpcoming research into informal entrepreneurs
Our Open AIR researcher Dr. Erika Kraemer-Mbula is continuing her exciting research in South Africa about informal sector entrepreneurs. Informal entrepreneurship is receiving increasing scholarly and...
View ArticleOpen AIR presents at ATRIP
ATRIP 2015: An Open AIR Student’s Perspective By Meika Ellis The Advancement of Training and Research for Intellectual Property (ATRIP) Conference provides a yearly opportunity for international...
View ArticleOpen Call for Case Studies
Call for Case Studies Open AIR is calling for African case studies that shed light on the following two overarching research questions: How can open collaborative innovation help businesses scale up...
View ArticleIs Creativity and Innovation All About Intellectual Property?
By Samuel Ugwumba In the recently concluded ‘African Ministerial Conference: Intellectual Property for an Emerging Africa’ organized in part by WIPO (here), one cannot help but think that all roads...
View ArticleOpen AIR Presents at Fourth Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest
By Victor Nzomo In the midst of two decades of TRIPS and three decades of openness, more than 400 delegates from over 50 countries converged in New Delhi for the 4th Global Congress on Intellectual...
View ArticleProf. Osei-Tutu speaks at the University of Ottawa
Open AIR Ottawa’s Inaugural Distinguished Speaker Series: Professor Osei-Tutu “Redefining Intellectual Property” By Katie Degendorfer Too often, scholarly work and debates relating to Intellectual...
View ArticleHani Morsi Presents in Cairo
Hani Morsi, an Open AIR Post-Doctoral fellow at the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) in Cairo, gave a seminar last week entitled “Beyond openness: Investigating the success factors of...
View ArticleDrawn Out Battle Over Genetic Resources Dampens Africa’s Hopes
By Prof. Chidi Oguamanam [Originally published under Creative Commons in The Conversation, here, and in Intellectual Property Watch, here. Reprinted with permission of the author.] The global South is...
View ArticleOpen AIR Case Study Nairobi Workshop
Recap and Reflections on the Open AIR Case Study Launch Workshop By Sileshi Hirko In the first week of April 2016, the Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open AIR) network launched a...
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Twitter Recap of the Nairobi Workshop
The Open AIR Case Study Launch Workshop as told by Twitter By Katie Degendorfer Last month, Open AIR launched our inaugural case study workshop at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information...
View ArticleBeyond the Poster Boy of the Maker Movement
By Meika Ellis “…this child’s desire for the impossible toy… [w]anting to make it, make it something I have held…” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters Some people tour Europe’s finest vineyards others tour...
View ArticleEvidence-based Intellectual Property Policymaking
By Jeremy de Beer The intellectual property system is a crucial part of economic policymaking worldwide. It affects matters of profound importance, including health, education, nutrition, culture,...
View ArticleInnovation, Makerspaces, and the Future: A Lesson from the University of...
By Meika Ellis This is part two of Meika Ellis’ ongoing field research into makerspaces in South Africa, for part one, please click here. Creativity is a key ingredient in innovation, and the...
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Open AIR NERG Attends WIPO-WTO Colloquium
By Victor Nzomo Just last month, I had the opportunity to participate in the 13th WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property held at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and...
View ArticleEmerging issues in campus and community “makerspaces” across Canada
By Vipal Jain and Professor Jeremy de Beer Makerspaces are places where innovators gather together to develop new ideas, technologies and entrepreneurial opportunities. The concept of sharing not only...
View ArticleInclusive Innovation: Lessons from Africa for the World’s ICT Policymakers
By Jeremy de Beer (Picture: CPRsouth conference panelists, left to right: George Mulamula, Jean Paul Simon, Idris Rai.) Information communication technologies (ICT) can play a crucial role in...
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Ownership of Open Data (GODAN Summit 2016)
By Jeremy de Beer and Meghan Blom (Picture: A farmer in Kenya, courtesy of CIAT and GODAN.) Open agricultural and nutritional data can play a vital role in addressing global challenges of food...
View ArticleLes défis d’étendre Open AIR dans des pays africains francophones
Par Emily Cumbaa Le travail panafricain comprend plusieurs défis, entre autre la grandeur du continent, sa diversité, les différences juridiques, et la complexité des langues. Les défis sont...
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