Innovation & Intellectual Property Collaborative Dynamics in Africa

by De Beer, Jeremy; Armstrong, Chris; Oguamanam, Chidi; Schonwetter, Tobias

• ISBN13: 9781919895994
• ISBN10: 191989599X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-02-01
• Publisher: University of Cape Town Press

Summary

The Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open A.I.R.) project focused on the intersection of innovation, intellectual property (IP), and development in Africa and this book offers its research findings. Its case studies cover nine African countries—Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Botswana, and South Africa—looking at IP rights in a range of sites of innovation: agricultural production, biofuel technology, traditional medicine, research collaboration, automotive manufacturing, music production, and scholarly publishing.

Author Biography

Jeremy de Beer is associate professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law whose expertise is in the area of technology and intellectual property law. He is the coeditor of Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright. Chris Armstrong is a research fellow at the University of Witwatersrand, specializing in copyright and broadcasting policy. He is also coeditor of Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright. Chidi Oguamanam is associate professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, a lawyer with Blackfriars LLP in Lagos, a coinvestigator for the Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open A.I.R.) project, and former director of the Law and Technology Institute at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is author of Intellectual Property in Global Governance and International Law and Indigenous Knowledge. Tobias Schonwetter is director of the IP Unit in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town, African regional coordinator for Creative Commons (CC), coprincipal investigator for the Open A.I.R. project, and former coprincipal investigator for the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project. He is an editor of Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright.