Development Policy & Practice in Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology

Lois Muraguri

Development Policy and Practice
Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Phone number: + 44 (0)1908 658756
Fax number: + 44 (0) 1908 654825
Email: Lois Muraguri

Position: Research Fellow

Biography:

Lois Muraguri joined INNOGEN in December 2007. She was previously a doctoral candidate and Research Assistant at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London.

Research Interests:

Lois’s academic background is in law. Her research interests include intellectual property rights and their interface with health and agricultural innovation, public-private partnerships in innovation, the innovation process, technology transfer, biodiversity and access to plant genetic resources, the relationship between plant variety protection and patent law, and the international politics of intellectual property rights. Lois has worked as a consultant for inter alia, the Seed Traders Association of Kenya (STAK) and the International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).


Publications:

  • (2010) Unplugged!: An analysis of agricultural biotechnology PPPs in Kenya Journal of International Development, 22/3:289
  • (2009) Below the radar: what does innovation in emerging economies have to offer other low-income economies? International Journal of Technology Management & Sustainable Development, 8/3:177 (with Kaplinsky, R., Chataway, J., Hanlin, R., Clark, N., Kale, D., Papaioannou, T., Robbins, P. & Wamae, W.)
  • (2009) PDPs as social technology innovators in global health: operating above and below the radar Global Forum for Health Research, 6:123 (with Chataway, J., Hanlin, R., & Wamae, W.)
  • (2009) Improving access to health technologies by the poor: the social context in Tanzanian bed net production and delivery International Journal of Technology Management & Sustainable Development, 8/3:237 (with Hanlin, R.)
  • (2009) IPRs, agriculture and food security in Wekesa, M. (ed) Intellectual Property Rights in Kenya (Nairobi: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung) (with Boadi, R. & Wekesa, M.)
  • (2009) Where are Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) headed and how can Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening (THeSyS) help them get there? Innogen Working Paper, Appropriate Governance for Life Sciences Series, No. 6 (with Chataway, J., Hanlin, R., & Mugwagwa, J.)
  • (2006) Assessing the economic implications of different models for implementing the requirement to protect plant varieties, Report on plant variety protection: the case of China. London: Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (with Lightbourne, M.)

  • (2006) A discussion paper on IP rights in public research in Agriculture: management issues. Nairobi: International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics.

Selected conference, workshop & seminar presentations:

  • (2010) Regulation of Intellectual Property and access to medicines, ACTS/Innogen Executive workshop ‘Linking innovation and access to medicines’ Nairobi, 16-18 February 2010.
  • (2009) Arranged, forced or love marriages? Agriculture biotechnology PPPs in sub-Saharan Africa, DSA Annual conference, University of Ulster, 2-4 Sept 2009.
  • (2009) Management of Intellectual Property in Product Development Public Private Partnerships: Issues and Challenges, China-UK Summer School on the Governance and Regulation of Emerging Biotechnologies, Beijing, 1-12 June 2009.
  • (2009) Substantive and non-substantive provisions in patent law: a comparison of Kenya, South Africa and Sudan, 1st conference on promotion of invention and innovation, Khartoum, 23-25 March 2009.
  • (2008) Harnessing IP to meet challenges in agriculture and food self-sufficiency, WIPO/Republic of Cameroon International Colloquium on Intellectual Property in the Knowledge Economy: A challenge for Africa and its Diaspora, Yaoundé, 7-9 October 2008.
  • (2008) IP management for innovation in agriculture, 6th GLOBELICS conference, Mexico City, 22-24 September 2008.
  • (2008) Management of IP in product development public private partnerships, Evpat Economics and Management of IP, Bologna, 9-13 June.
  • (2008) The role of IP in health innovation, ACTS/Innogen Executive workshop, Nairobi, March 2008.

  • (2006) Options for developing countries to design patent systems to promote biotechnology capacity building and appropriate technology transfer. A meeting of the IP for Development research project under the 6th E.U. Framework programme, Chatham House, London, October 2006.

  • (2006) Assessing the Economic Implications of different models for implementing the requirement to protect plant varieties: the case of China. Chatham House, London, October 2006.

  • (2006) Intellectual Property Rights issues in Agriculture: A developing country perspective. A presentation at World Intellectual Property Organisation, Geneva, 26 July 2006.