Victor Mose, a policy analyst with the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, says poor commercialisation of these innovations arise from poor patenting of creative works, which in turn stems from a weak policy environment awareness. “Kenya ranks 37 of 137 countries globally in innovation and sophistication, largely buoyed by huge leaps in ICT creations. “The problem is we are not protecting these innovations and therefore cannot go full scale commercial with them,” he says. “The processes involved in patenting are also cumbersome and in some cases expensive. The result is that Kenyans in the diaspora are patenting their works in host countries more than Kenya is patenting home grown innovations,” he said.

Source: Standard Digital March 01, 2019 21:04 UTC