Afrinnovation

Open AIR is a unique collaborative network of researchers spread across 20+ African countries, Canada, and elsewhere in the world. Our primary goal is to uncover new insights to ease tensions between IP and access to knowledge. Specifically, we aim to solve a problem at the heart of IP and innovation policy: how to reconcile tensions between appropriation and access, excluding and sharing, and competing and collaborating. In dealing with this problem, Open AIR’s research is showing how knowledge-based businesses can bypass outmoded, constrictive knowledge governance practices to capitalise on open collaborative innovation strategies.

For more information, please see our website: https://openair.africa/