Includes bibliographical references.

Innovation, Intellectual Property and Development Narratives in Africa / Jeremy de Beer, Chidi Oguamanam and Tobias Schonwetter -- Frameworks for Analysing African Innovation : Entrepreneurship, the Informal Economy and Intellectual Property / Jeremy de Beer, Izabella Sowa and Kristen Holman -- Informal-Formal Sector Interactions in Automotive Engineering, Kampala / Dick Kawooya -- Geographical Indication (GI) Options for Ethiopian Coffee and Ghanaian Cocoa / Chidi Oguamanam and Teshager Dagne -- A Consideration of Communal Trademarks for Nigerian Leather and Textile Products / Adebambo Adewopo, Helen Chuma-Okoro and Adejoke Oyewunmi -- The Policy Context for a Commons-Based Approach to Traditional Knowledge in Kenya / Marisella Ouma -- Consideration of a Legal "Trust" Model for the Kukula Healers' TK Commons in South Africa / Gino Cocchiaro, Johan Lorenzen, Bernard Maister and Britta Rutert -- From De Facto Commons to Digital Commons? : The Case of Egypt's Independent Music Industry / Nagla Rizk -- Reflections on Open Scholarship Modalities and the Copyright Environment in Kenya / Ben Sihanya -- African Patent Offices Not Fit for Purpose / Ikechi Mgbeoji -- The State of Biofuel Innovation in Mozambique / Fernando dos Santos and Simão Pelembe -- Reflections on the Lack of Biofuel Innovation in Egypt / Bassem Awad and Perihan Abou Zeid -- Effects of the South African IP Regime on Generating Value from Publicly Funded Research : An Exploratory Study of Two Universities / Caroline Ncube, Lucienne Abrahams and Titi Akinsanmi -- Towards University-Industry Innovation Linkages in Ethiopia / Wondwossen Belete -- Perspectives on Intellectual Property from Botswana's Publicly Funded Researchers / Njoku Ola Ama -- Current Realities of Collaborative Intellectual Property in Africa / Jeremy de Beer, Chris Armstrong, Chidi Oguamanam and Tobias Schonwetter.

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.