With the bulging unemployment of youth in Kenya, where about 85% are unemployed, the Kenya Vision 2030 recognizes the dairy industry as one of the fundamental industries in generating employment activities especially for ...

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 ...

The interface between information communication technologies (ICTs) and innovation remains largely under-researched. Attempting to bridge this knowledge gap, this cross-sectional study of Kenya’s micro, small and medium ...

Improving the business environment for MSEs is a catalyst to leveraging fully on the potential of MSEs in contributing to the development agenda of the country. The MSMEs Survey of 2016 estimates that the MSEs sector in ...

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 KIPPRA Annual Regional Conference (KARC) was successfully held from 23rd to 25th June 2021 at the Bomas of Kenya, with the theme: “Science, Technology, and Innovation (ST&I) in Enhancing Delivery of the ‘Big Four’ ...

The Kenyan economy has over the last two decades experienced an upward trajectory in economic growth. The country’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) more than doubled from Ksh 2,150 billion in 2001 to Ksh 5,049 billion ...

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, ...