IKD Seminar Series - Leveraging Electric Mobility To Accelerate Energy Access In African Countries

Dr Charles Mbalyohere is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and a Senior Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. In this role, he has made unique contributions to the teaching of strategy in the OU’s Faculty of Business & Law by integrating some of the latest views about nonmarket strategy into the curriculum. Charles’ other work engages with the collaboration between Higher Education institutions in the international space, for example by holding joint seminars to facilitate cross-cultural learning. Consequently, he is involved with partner institutions in sub-Saharan Africa and India and exploring new possibilities. Most importantly for the IKID seminar series, Charles is further keenly involved with studies on the uptake of renewable energy technologies and the transition to electric vehicles, including the potential of battery repurposing to improve energy storage and access. The work builds on a long history of investigating the renewable energy industry in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Dinar Kale works in the area of entrepreneurship and innovation in healthcare technology industries with extensive research on industrial innovation, industrial-health policy linkages and health access in developing countries. Prof. Kale has researched and published extensively on issues that influence entrepreneurship, innovation and development of healthcare industries based in low-middle-income countries. One strand of his research has focused on exploring links between migration, entrepreneurship, and innovation through the prism of tacit knowledge. His recent research explores the role of trans-local migrant entrepreneurship in improving the economic competitiveness of local economies in the global south.  Over the years, Prof. Kale has published in leading journals in the area of Business Studies (BS), Development Studies (DS) and Innovation Studies (IS), such as the British Journal of Management, Research Policy, World Development, Industrial and Corporate Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Innovation and Development and Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.