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"content": "they do not start up with debt. You cannot pick up a good idea then go and borrow heavily and succeed. It is not easy because mistakes at that level are grave. If you make any mistake, you may collapse and fail for good. So, they have family settings where they get resources, counselling and a support system and they grow into big enterprises. Culturally, we do not have that arrangement in this country. We have to rely on formal institutions to help to create them by providing incentives to these kind of institutions to be present to support our new entrepreneurs who will pick up these engineering ideas. The engineering ideas by themselves are not going to be useful because they will still be picked by somebody elsewhere where soft institutions are operating. So we must have them and be able to domesticate what we need so that they can turn into a business that grows to a bigger business. We must respect talent. Talent can come from young people even the pre-college ones. You can, for example, look at a person and say he is behind this or that but if you look at their education and find that they are in form three or form four, you may dismiss them and maybe that is where talent lies. How do we pick up this kind of people along the age progression chain, work with them and nature their ideas? The TTIs we got are a starting point. They are structured like schools. The intention was that they will grow beyond being big schools to be market oriented processing institutions. However, that is not what is coming out. I hope that we will reorient them. Part of the problem is that we do not have enough instructors who have the same understanding to pick it up. Those institutions can link to the things that KIRDI is doing, benefit from it and offer ideas. That is one area that we can network in the country. I am sure there are many people in the Jua Kali sector who are making innovative things. For example, we have been denigrating the wheelbarrow not as an ideology but an equipment. If we can make these wheelbarrows from scratch to finish on materials that are fabricated entirely by us, including the iron and steel – I know we are doing some of it – then we would be making progress. We can build on that by having our lawn mowers and other simple equipment done by us and go to “Nyayo One” and pick the idea and continue with it like India. If you went to the streets of New Delhi in India 20 years ago, just until recently, you would find the old Russian vehicles called “Pravda” or something like that. I have forgotten the exact name. They did not look good but that is what the State and their people used. Only ambassadors and other licensed people would ship in beautiful sophisticated cars that someone has talked about here. India has now changed. When they began manufacturing, they used the base of the ugly cars they were using as a platform on which they have now become one of the global producers of modern brands with high local content. Therefore, we must learn to harness the knowledge that we get. What KIRDI can do and produce must be harnessed and nurtured with other supporting institutions that will help us grow talent. Beyond that, it can be a business opportunity for entrepreneurship. I support."
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