Police Power Doctrine and Security of Investment: Balancing Regulation with Innovation
By Dr. Otitodiri Ogadinma OnyemaQES Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Law, Open AIR
In October, 2025, I had the privilege of presenting my research at the International Conference...
Scaling Innovation: How Open Collaborative Models Help Scale Africa’s Knowledge-Based Enterprises
Drawing from more than 20 case studies of open, collaborative innovation in Africa, Open AIR has identified numerous dimensions of, and approaches to, enterprise-scaling. These case study findings are the core of Open AIR’s newest report, Scaling Innovation: How Open Collaborative Models Help Scale Africa s Knowledge-based Enterprises.
68TH WIPO GENERAL ASSEMBLY: GAUGING THE PULSE ON THE IGC AND...
CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND
The 68th series of meetings of the Assemblies of Member States of WIPO (also the WIPO GA) were held from July 7...
Innovation and Intellectual Property: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa
Editors: Jeremy de Beer, Chris Armstrong, Chidi Oguamanam and Tobias SchonwetterPublication Date: 2014Download: Innovation and Intellectual Property: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa (PDF, EPUB)
Innovation and...
Fostering Information and Knowledge Access in the Digital Environment: A Situational...
Principal Investigators:
A/Prof. Dick Kawooya, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina, USA, Kawooya@sc.edu
A/Prof. Tobias Schonwetter, Department of Commercial Law, University of Cape Town,...
Annual Report 2024-25
This Open AIR Annual Report sets out the activities and outputs of the network from mid-2024 to mid-2025. During this period, deliverables were determined...
Open Opportunities for Globally Inclusive Biomedical Innovation
By Jeremy de Beer
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In this project, Open AIR researchers are investigating the root regulatory causes of vaccine inequity...
Regulation for Innovation: Conceptualising a Development Research Agenda for Inclusive and...
This report scopes and builds towards a new research agenda on the regulation of innovation. Grounded in the findings of a 2021-22 Open AIR Scoping Study funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the report supports the development of a collaborative research programme to improve the regulation of innovations in priority areas including health, the digital economy, and clean technology.
Waiting for An Inclusive Pathogen Access And Benefit Sharing Policy
By Anthony Oguguo, QEScholar and PhD Student, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada
The inadequacies of the global health law framework during the pandemic...
Open AIR researchers present early findings at the Canadian Association of...
On June 10th, at York University’s Glendon Campus, the Canadian Association of African Studies hosted their annual conference. Dr. Tesh W Dagne and Dr....
