Welcome | Our Strategic Plan (2013 - 2017) comes alive...

We are pleased to present our strategic plan for the next five years (2013 - 2017). It outlines our programmatic focus, our priorities and strategies for thhis period. It will provide our compass as we strive to achieve our set goals of enhancing the uptake and use of STI knowledge in decision-making and wealth creation.

In line with our emphasis on understanding the barriers to the adoption and use of STI knowledge for decision-making and wealth creation, the strategy focuses on three possible barriers namely (i) Policies and legal frameworks that shape incentive structures for the application of science, technology and innovation (ii) Institutions including the rules, norms, attitudes, habits and mindsets that shape how people view and respond to science, innovation and entrepreneurship and (iii) Capabilities i.e. the set of skills including technical, organizational and managerial skills required to turn science, technology and innovation to businesses and social enterprises. We urge you to read it, share it and and recommend it to partners and others in your network.

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Selected Publications:


Newsletter. Issue no. 2, March 2013	Do Partnerships leadto capacity Building?

Strategic Plan (2013 - 2017)	ICTs for Agricultural knowledge acquisition

Learning and Innovation in Agri-Export Industries Book	Influencing Policy Change Through Effective Advocacy

Learning and Innovation in Agri-Export Industries A new book by Dr Maurice Ochieng Bolo Learning and Innovation in Agri-Export Industries: Partnerships, institutions and Capabilities in Kenya’s Flower Industry by Maurice Ochieng Bolo About the... Read more

Update on 3rd FORUM Africa Wide-Women and YoungProfessionals in Science Competitions The 3rd edition Africa-Wide Women and Young Professionals in Science Competitions received an overwhelming number ofabstracts which covered a cross section of thematic issues. A total of 316... Read more

Making Research Evidence count for Policy and Practice: The Scinnovent Centre trains researchers on “The Art of Influencing Policy Change” The Scinnovent Centre has successfully concluded its first training workshop on “The art of influencing policy change: tools and strategies for researchers” which was held at the African... Read more

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Agricultural Innovation

Agricultural Innovation, Food and Nutrition Security

Several analysts have attributed the failure of the African continent to feed itself to the inability to harness the power of science and technology to spur innovation and transformation of the agricultural sector. As part of our programme on agricultural innovation and food security, we shall marshal the resources, knowledge, technologies, skills and tools available in research and development centres, universities as well as industry and help rural communities translate these knowledge, technologies and skills into practical action that changes lives. The following projects will be implemented under this programme.

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Health Innovation

Health Innovation and Healthcare Delivery

The enormous cost of health care, lack of effective drugs, high costs of medicine and lack of access to affordable drugs, weak health care systems, drug resistance and slow pace of behavioral change ensures that a huge proportion of the population are faced with the reality of early deaths from potentially preventable and treatable diseases. At the same time, recent reviews have shown that most of the African countries are unlikely to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Africa continues to be weighed down by a huge and growing disease burden which undermines her quest for rapid and sustainable economic development.

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Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property & Knowledge Management

The increasing technological complexity and knowledge intensity of production and competitiveness has focused attention to the important role of knowledge as a key resource in firms and organizations as well as to individual actors. The sources of knowledge, its generation, content and structure as well as how it is disseminated and utilized have thus become key concerns for organizations, firms and individuals. This growing importance of

knowledge in development has elicited questions of equity and social impacts of intellectual property regimes on marginalized groups. There has been particularly fierce debate in the wake of advances in (agricultural) biotechnologies and the likely impacts of IPRs on the access to seeds, technologies and innovation by resource poor farmers. Our projects under this programme will focus on impacts of IPR regimes and knowledge appropriation strategies on marginalized communities (such as resource poor farmers), taking into considerations gender and social equity issues.

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Governance of Technology

Entrepreneurship and Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation

Entrepreneurship has been shown to have beneficial impact on governance by encouraging decentralization of power as a result making both governments and markets function more efficiently. It helps to reduce the power of incumbents by increasing consumer options and facilitates the introduction of technological and organizational innovations into the economy. By so doing, entrepreneurship serves to pile pressure on incumbents (both governments and corporates) to improve the quality of goods and services provided.

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