CIPIT Hosts Novel Moot Court Competition on IT Law in East Africa
December 10, 2018
CIPIT’s bi-annual moot competition aims to be innovative and to attract teams from across East Africa, and the 2018 edition…
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Open AIR Researcher Presents at University of Cambridge Seminar Series on Open Intellectual Property Models
March 7, 2018
On 28 February 2018, the Centre for Research in Art, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge continued…
Apply for the Open AIR QES Fellowship at Strathmore
October 1, 2017
The Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR) network has received funding from the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced…
A New Look at High Tech Hubs in the 'Digital Savannah': Part 2
August 2, 2017
In Part 1, we introduced our recently published paper titled: “A Framework for Assessing Technology Hubs in Africa” and briefly…
Mobile Innovation as the Cornerstone of Socio-economic Development in Kenya
April 17, 2017
Over the past few years, Kenya’s innovation scene has come to the limelight, resulting in some naming the country as…
New CIPIT Research: Do Patents, Utility Models Encourage Innovation in Kenya?
March 13, 2017
Dr. Isaac Rutenberg (CIPIT Director) and Ms. Jacquelene Mwangi (CIPIT Researcher) have co-authored a new peer-reviewed article titled: “Do patents…
Why Innovation in Kenya ‘Died’ in 1985: A Response
March 9, 2017
In a recent blogpost titled “The Reports of the Death of Innovation are Somewhat Exaggerated” over at the newly revamped…
Open AIR Research into the Maker Movement in Africa
March 6, 2017
A “Maker space” is a collective organization that maintains a workshop for individual tinkering, social learning, and group collaboration on…
World Intellectual Property Day 2017 Theme: “Innovation – Improving Lives”
February 6, 2017
As readers of this blog may already know, on April 26th every year, the World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated…
A New Look at High Tech Hubs in the 'Digital Savannah': Part 1
February 1, 2017
Toward the end of 2016, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited tech hubs in Kenya and Nigeria. During this,…