Innovation Incubation & Linkages

Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment (YEM) is a program that supports young people to venture into entrepreneurs through coaching and mentorship. This is the second edition of the program since its inception last year funded by the British Council. The program now brings on board partners such as Alumni Connect who will focus on coaching, SME Founders Association for mentorship programmes, Ruaraka Business Community (RUBICO) for industry linkages whereas KCA University will be the knowledge partner and will provide entrepreneurship-specific training.

We are partnering with Alumni Connect for goal setting and Vision board webinar from tonight 24th to 28th.

The challenge is to provide solutions through a website or mobile application in the following areas:

 Good Health and Well-being,
 Quality Education,
Clean Water and Sanitation,
Affordable and Clean Energy,
Decent Work and Economic Growth,
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure,
Sustainable Cities and Communities,
Responsible Consumption and Production,
Climate Action

This discussion will focus on how lectures can commercialize research findings.

The forum aims to shape public discourse on the future of economic development in Kenya

The RSD team in conjunction with CTLE is planning a Research Dissemination Forum. The theme is “Mainstreaming Challenge Based Learning in Teaching and Learning”.

The KCA Research team led by Dr. Rotich, Prof. Muchiri, Prof. Patrick Ogao, Dr. Lilian Korir and the team from Lincoln University won a grant and in partnership with Lincoln University have in the last 2 years carried out research on the implementation of the Challenge Based Learning approach. The MSc Data Analytics class was used as a pilot group to implement the Challenge Based Learning program, in partnership with 2 institutions in Kiambu and Kitui who provided real challenges and data that the students used to implement the Challenge-based approach to provide real-time solutions. The research was concluded in the year 2022. It is on this basis that the Research Support and Dissemination directorate has provided a forum where the approach and findings can be disseminated to key stakeholders within the Industry and in Academia, with a view of promoting the Challenge Based Learning Approach which is a student-centered learning approach to institutions of higher learning.

This will be a webinar facilitated by Prof. John Okpara,  a visiting scholar, from Carnegie African diaspora Fellowship.

This will be a practical grant writing write-shop for selected teams who will be responding to a given request for proposal (RFP).