Open AIR

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...