Foresight Research on African Innovation: Pathways and Signposts to Scenarios for...
Authored by: Jeremy de Beer, Shirin Elahi, Yvonne Ndelle
This Working Paper 30 sets out the details of Open AIR's 2010-13 scenario-building process and the...
The Intellectual Property Treaty Landscape in Africa, 1885 to 2015
This paper maps the 130-year history of the IP treaty landscape governing the protection of, and access to, knowledge in Africa.
Life under COVID-19 for micro and small enterprises in Africa: a...
By Bertha Vallejo and Erika Kraemer-Mbula
Dr. Bertha Vallejo is an OpenAIR QES fellow with the University of Johannesburg. She analyzes the adoption of Industry...
Innovation and Scaling by Tech Hubs and Their Hosted Startups: Three...
Authored by: Lucienne Abrahams
Abstract: This Working Paper sets out a view of the nature of three South African tech hubs, their modes of knowledge...
Opportunities for Women in Transformative Innovation and 4IR in Africa
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...
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...
Workshop on Integrating Gender Perspectives into Research Projects: Focusing on Social...
By Desmond Oriakhogba
Recently, Open AIR participated in a workshop which focused on the integration of gender perspectives into research projects aimed at promoting social...
Invention in Africa: Open AIR shares its Model at CAAS 2019
By Uchenna Felicia Ugwu
Africa is becoming recognized as an important hub of
informal innovation, which should not be excluded or ignored by formal systems
for IP...
Meet Open AIR’s New and Emerging Researchers Group (NERG)
First Stop, the American University in Cairo
By the AUC New and Emerging Research Group and Meika Ellis
Under the masterful guidance of our North African...
Les Fablabs en Afrique : une utopie à l’épreuve des...
By Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou
Du 6 au 10 mai 2018, la ville de Dakar accueillait le Festival Afropixel 6 sur la thématique « Utopies non-alignées :...













