AfricaLics is the African chapter of the Global Research Network on the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (Globelics) which was established in 2002 and which a range of regional and national networks (the so-called LICS) on all continents. See www.globelics.org for more. Through this network, we collaborate with a broad range of renowned innovation scholars and with universities and think tanks that are active within the field of Innovation and Development.
On the African continent our key collaborating partners are the established LICS in Nigeria (https://nigerialics.ng/) and Ethiopia, the MAGTECH network (the de facto LICS for countries in the MAGREB region) and groups of researchers and students in the field of Innovation and Development in a range of other countries including Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Benin, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
The SARChI-Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation (TRCTI; https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/college-of-business-and-economics/trilateral-research-chair-in-transformative-innovation/) at the Business School at University of Johannesburg hosts the AfricaLics Visiting Fellowship Programme (previously hosted by Jaramoga Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) in Kenya and Aalborg University in Denmark).
AfricaLics has over the years benefitted substantially from support from the Globelics secretariat and network as well as from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). In addition, many African universities and think tanks have hosted AfricaLics PhD academies and conferences.