Outreach

Open AIR is a unique collaborative network of researchers spread across 14 African countries, Canada, and elsewhere answering overarching questions. Open AIR’s primary goal is to uncover new insights to ease tensions between IP and access to knowledge. Specifically, they aim to solve a problem at the heart of IP and innovation policy, which is how to reconcile tensions between appropriation and access, excluding and sharing, and competing and collaborating. In dealing with this problem, Open AIR’s current project is showing how knowledge-based businesses can bypass outmoded, constrictive knowledge governance practices to capitalise on emerging trends.