Open AIR - The Open African Innovation Research Network

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Open AIR - The Open African Innovation Research Network

The Open AIR Network, funded by SSHRC, IDRC, and Universities Canada, is a unique collaborative network of researchers in more than 20 African countries, Canada, and elsewhere in the world, with a primary goal to uncover new insights about the balance between control and access to knowledge.

The Network aims to solve a problem at the heart of intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy: how to reconcile tensions between appropriation and access, excluding and sharing, and competing and collaborating. Our research is showing how knowledge-based businesses can capitalize on open collaborative innovation strategies, by answering three overarching questions:

How can open collaborative innovation help knowledge-based businesses scale up and seize the new opportunities of a global knowledge economy?
Which knowledge governance policies will best ensure that the social and economic benefits of innovation are shared inclusively?
How can open collaborative innovation help scale the impacts of next-generation technologies to promote gender equality, youth employment, and other aspects of inclusion?

The Open AIR Network has five thematic research clusters, based on its previous research on knowledge and innovation in Africa: High Technology Hubs; Informal Innovation; Indigenous Entrepreneurship; Innovation Metrics, and Laws and Policies.

Team

The Open AIR Network has a number of in more than 20 African countries, Canada, and elsewhere in the world. The Canadian hub is led by Prof Jeremy de Beer and Prof Chidi Oguamanam at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society.

The is comprised of:

Jeremy de Beer, University of Ottawa
Erika Kraemer-Mbula, University of Johannesburg
Caroline Ncube, University of Cape Town
Chidi Oguamanam, University of Ottawa
Nagla Rizk, American University of Cairo
Isaac Rutenberg, Strathmore University
Tobias Schonwetter, University of Cape Town
Victoria Schorr, University of Ottawa
Nan Warner, University of Cape Town
(NERG Ombud), Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

Hubs

Beyond the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, the partnership includes the following partners that compose the different hubs of the network:

Contact

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Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 CANADA

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