Open AIR is a unique collaborative network of researchers spread across 22 African countries, Canada, and elsewhere in the world, answering two overarching questions: - How can open collaborative innovation help knowledge-based businesses scale up and seize the new opportunities of a global knowledge economy? - Which knowledge governance policies will best insure that the social and economic benefits of innovation are shared inclusively? Five thematic research clusters: High Technology Hubs; Informal Innovation; Indigenous Entrepreneurship; Innovation Metrics, and Laws and Policies. Runs a "new and emerging researchers group" to develop futures leaders.