The government will transform the annual Kenya Innovation Week into an international innovation festival, President William Ruto has said.
This, Ruto said will attract global participants to "facilitate exponential enhancement of Kenya's capacity for transformative innovations.
The Head of State was speaking when he launched the innovation week at the Sarit Expo on Tuesday.
"Through innovations we can reimagine and overhaul our economy into a modern high-tech one serviced by highly skilled citizens who enjoy high quality of life," he said.
Innovation, he said, brings us closer to sustainable goals in line with Vision 2030.
He challenged the Kenya innovation agency to develop policies that will help mobilise resources from various organisations and actors to support innovations in the country.
Ruto further stated that the Kenya Kwanza administration is committed to mainstreaming innovations into a way of life in the public and private sectors.
The bottom up economic model and the Hustler narrative, he noted, are the radical innovations of a political strategy.
Ruto ordered the ministries to domesticate a continuous strategy of innovations.
