Author:Open A.I.R. NetworkDate:2014This Briefing Note highlights the findings from Open A.I.R. researcher Dr. Dick Kawooya's study of innovation dynamics in the automotive engineering sector of Uganda's capital city Kampala. Kawooya found evidence of strong collaboration between ...Read morecb
Author:Open A.I.R. NetworkDate:2014This Briefing Note highlights the findings from Open A.I.R. research into the workings of the bio-cultural community protocol (BCP) and traditional knowledge commons, or "TK commons" established by the Kukula Traditional Health Practitioners ...Read morecb
Author:Open A.I.R. NetworkDate:2014This Briefing Note highlights Open A.I.R. research findings on apparent disconnects between African national policymaking on intellectual property (IP) from publicly funded research and the actual current realities of university research. In ...Read morecb
Author:Open A.I.R. NetworkDate:2014This Briefing Note outlines findings from Open A.I.R. research into potential use of communal intellectual property (IP) protection by tie-and-dye textile artisans in the Nigerian city of Abeokuta. The researchers, from the Nigerian Institute ...Read morecb