The main objectives of science, technology and innovation (ST&I) policy are to create endogenous ST&I capacities appropriate to national needs, priorities and resources, and to create a science, technology and innovation ...

Sustainable economic development requires that a country does not remain, primarily, a provider of raw materials with external dependency for hi-tech services. Thus, the ST&I sector seeks to identify national programmes ...

Adoption of technologies that increase farm yields is a prerequisite for poverty alleviation in agrarian societies. However, the link between adoption of improved varieties and poverty reduction is not well understood or ...

Despite Kenya’s high innovation ranking, there are low levels of innovations in her informal sector. The informal sector plays a key role in Kenya’s economy, while technology and innovations both have the potential to spur ...

The Kenya National Digital Master Plan 2022-2032 is a sequential progression of the Master Plan 2014-2017, the blueprint for leveraging and deepening the contribution of ICT to accelerate economic growth. The Master Plan ...

Globally, the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in promoting innovation in the host economies has not been certain. Various studies have established that the impact varies across countries depending on economical, ...