Transforming Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation Systems for African Intellectual Decolonization and Renaissance

African indigenous knowledge and research

This paper seeks to heighten awareness about the need to include indigenous knowledge in the design and implementation of research, particularly disability research, in Africa. It affirms the suitability of the Afrocentric paradigm in African research and argues the necessity for an emancipatory and participatory type of research which values and includes indigenous knowledge and peoples. In th...

the innovation of a statistical model to estimate dependable rainfall (dr) and develop it for determination and classification of drought and wet years of iran

آب حاصل از بارش منبع تأمین نیازهای بی شمار جانداران به ویژه انسان است و هرگونه کاهش در کم و کیف آن مستقیماً حیات موجودات زنده را تحت تأثیر منفی قرار می دهد. نوسان سال به سال بارش از ویژگی های اساسی و بسیار مهم بارش های سالانه ایران محسوب می شود که آثار زیان بار آن در تمام عرصه های اقتصادی، اجتماعی و حتی سیاسی- امنیتی به نحوی منعکس می شود. چون میزان آب ناشی از بارش یکی از مولفه های اصلی برنامه ...

Innovation and knowledge accumulation– an intellectual property rights perspective

In the recent years, a good deal of attention devoted to the emergence of the “knowledge economy”. The rapid pace of development in today’s technology-driven economic environment has resulted in specialized knowledge becoming a very short-term resource. Companies cannot alone master the development and commercialization of complex and evolving technologies. The different forms of enabling knowl...

The Protection of Indigenous Knowledge through the Intellectual Property System

African health innovation systems: preface

Preface Concern over access to essential medicines has dominated international health policy debates over the last two decades. Much of this debate has focused on the role of intellectual property rights in either restricting or enabling developing countries to address persistent and emerging medical challenges. Much of this debate has focused on African countries which have borne higher diseas...