South Africa is contemplating new laws to protect the country's traditional knowledge. Other countries on the continent may follow. Companies should welcome these moves, says Emma Barraclough The ...

Over the past few months, we have been talking to many entrepreneurs about their knowledge-gap around intellectual property (IP) and other important startup matters that actually impact IP or ...

Who gets to be a public intellectual? If you write a Facebook post with an incisive response to Mark Greif's recent discussion of public intellectuals at The Chronicle of Higher Education, are you ...

Professors are only human, so many of us want to be Daniel Drezner. He may not be in the very top tier of intellectuals who write for a wider audience, but he has “partaken in snack-filled green rooms ...

As discussed here last week, Anna M. Young’s book Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits: Rhetorical Styles and Public Engagement (Southern Illinois University Press) is a recent addition to the literature on ...

Antonio Gramsci was not a professional philosopher. His intellect was refreshingly situated within an inherent bias towards the common people, the ‘subaltern’ classes, particularly the working class.

The death of Olu Adegboro a few weeks back and the iconic Dr Seinde Arigbede shortly thereafter has drawn attention once again to the plight of intellectuals and men of ideas in the postcolonial ...