Open AIR | The Open African Innovation Research Partnership

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Regulation for Innovation Project

A report providing unique perspectives on how African knowledge-based enterprises are seeking, and achieving, scale.

Leveraging Openness for Sustainable Development in Africa

Science, Technology & Innovation
and Intellectual Property

Caroline Ncube's new book engages with the perennial challenge of how to craft and use Intellectual Property (IP) institutions, law, policies and practices to add to efforts to achieve sustainable development, and to consider recovery paths for economies ravaged by a world-wide public health and economic crisis.

African Perspectives on the
Fourth Industrial Revolution

Leap 4.0

The 4IR is well established in many parts of the world, with technological advances driving profound social and economic change. However, for many developing countries, particularly countries in Africa, the 4IR may not offer the anticipated 'leap' forward.
This book seeks to identify the challenges and opportunities the 4IR presents to South Africa and the rest of the African continent.

We are committed to recognizing Africa’s role in the global knowledge economy and discovering which knowledge governance policies will best ensure that the social and economic benefits of innovation are shared inclusively.

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TECHNOLOGY HUBS

Governance of Data and Data-driven Technology

Authored by: Nagla Rizk, Tobias Schonwetter This Open AIR Working Paper 29 explores governance challenges pertaining to data and data-driven technology, with emphasis on the...

Policy Support for Makerspaces in Africa and Europe: mAkE Project Publishes Recommendations

Open Science, Intellectual Property and the South African mRNA Vaccine Hub

Makerspace Sustainability: mAkE Project Launches Open Catalogue of Business Models (OCBM)

African European Maker Innovation Ecosystem (mAkE) Project Completes Year 1

INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURS

Annual Report 2023-2024

This Open AIR Annual Report outlines the network's core activities in 2023-24 within our two main current initiatives: the Regulation for Innovation programme and...

Commemorating 75 Years of the UDHR: Advancing Health Justice in a Turbulent World Symposium

Why Canada Must Implement the Nagoya Protocol Now: MAPC and ABS Canada

WIPO-IGC 47: Resetting IGC after 2024 Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources

WIPO-IGC 45: Bold and Strategic Moves Toward TK and TCE Text(s)

BIO-MEDICAL INNOVATION

Research

Open Opportunities for Globally Inclusive Biomedical Innovation

By Jeremy de Beer Researchers from the Open African Innovation Research network, Open AIR, are investigating root regulatory causes of vaccine inequity and looking toward...

2024 Global Health Security Conference Event

Open Science, Intellectual Property and the South African mRNA Vaccine Hub

À l’ère postpandémique, Open AIR cherche des solutions équitables aux freins à l’innovation

Open AIR Seeks Equitable Solutions to Post-pandemic Innovation Challenges

INFORMAL INNOVATION

Makerspace Sustainability: mAkE Project Launches Open Catalogue of Business Models (OCBM)

By Chris Armstrong The African European Maker Innovation Ecosystem (mAkE) Project, of which Open AIR is part, has launched its Open Catalogue of Business Models (OCBM)....

Strong Qualitative Research During the Covid-19 pandemic: A Reflection

Intellectual Property and Women Economic empowerment in the local Community through GSWIM

Open AIR initie un débat intra-africain sur l’informel à l’ère de la Covid-19 en Afrique

Leap 4.0 – African Perspectives on the Fourth Industrial Revolution

LAWS AND POLICY

Open AIR’s Regulation for Innovation Project

Open AIR has just released a video, on our @Afrinnovation YouTube channel, highlighting the network’s current large research programme, “Regulation for Innovation Supporting Sustainable...

Open Opportunities for Globally Inclusive Biomedical Innovation

Governance of Data and Data-driven Technology

2024 Global Health Security Conference Event

Policy Support for Makerspaces in Africa and Europe: mAkE Project Publishes Recommendations

GENDER EQUITY

Opportunities for Women in Transformative Innovation and 4IR in Africa

Blog Post

By Pamela Mreji Since the beginning of time, women and men inventors and entrepreneurs have transformed our world through the power of their imagination and...

Providing an Equitable Framework for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: Women in the Kente Weaving Industry in Ghana

Blog Post

ANNUAL REPORTS