Open AIR Research
Open AIR is a unique collaborative network of researchers spread across 22 African countries, Canada, and elsewhere in the world, answering two overarching questions:
Annual Report 2022
This report features Open AIR researchers’ extensive recent outputs—including books, book chapters, journal articles, reports, policy engagements, conference presentations, and blogs—in five thematic clusters, guided by four cross-cutting research lenses:
The five thematic clusters:
high technology hubs
informal innovation
traditional knowledge and Indigenous entrepreneurs
innovation metrics
laws and policies
The four...
À l’ère postpandémique, Open AIR cherche des solutions équitables aux freins à l’innovation
En 2013, le réseau Open AIR (Open African Innovation Research) publiait une étude prospective prévoyant un avenir ponctué de bouleversements, comme une pandémie catastrophique à l’échelle planétaire. Depuis, il pose que l’innovation ouverte, libre de tout brevet, favorise un accès équitable aux technologies fondées sur le...
Open AIR seeks equitable solutions to post-pandemic innovation challenges
In 2013, Open AIR published foresight research anticipating a future shaped by shocks like a catastrophic global pandemic. During the decade since, Open AIR has posited open innovation, free from patent roadblocks, to promote equitable access to knowledge-based technologies including vaccines to fight known...
Building Startup Resilience in Ghana Through Policy Support
By Yaw Adu-Gyamfi
Startups in Ghana struggle with access to technical support services, sustainable market linkages and funding to keep them afloat in the initial difficult years. Without an enabling environment created by policy, startups in Ghana are not able to grow an create jobs...
Why Canada Must Implement the Nagoya Protocol Now: MAPC and ABS Canada
By Chidi Oguamanam
MAPC-ABS Canada 2003 Workshop and Retreat
May 15-16: The Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council (MAPC) and ABS Canada concluded their 2023 Annual Retreat and Workshop in Truro, NS. The objectives were to review the current national and international progress on the implementation of the...