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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, another thing that caught my eye is when Sen. Crystal Asige said that we need to promote the linkages between universities, research institutions, and the business community. This got me thinking, we have universities now almost in every other county. We have one in Murang’a County where I come from; Murang’a University of Technology. Apart from the people that work there, there is minimal benefit, if any, to the community that hosts this particular university. People are not able to get benefits through the innovation that this university can create. We do not have a direct linkage. In fact, if you are not working there, you will not see how that university benefits you. So, the proposal to develop linkages with these institutions of learning excites me. I do not want to say many things but there is also a part that excites me in this Bill. Allow me to refer to it. Part IV of this Bill talks about incentives for start-ups. Sen. Crystal Asige, God bless you. This is a very good Bill that wants to subsidise the formalization of start-ups. We need to subsidise every effort that our people make. That is a very good proposal; that we facilitate the protection of intellectual property. I come from Murang’a County and as you may know, there is one constituency called Gatanga. The main ‘cash crop’ is music. We have heard stories of people that came up with very good artistic works and music. However, they did not have enough resources to produce the same. So, when we say we want to facilitate the protection of intellectual property, then this captures the problem of our people in Gatanga Constituency, Murang’a County. I know this cuts across all the counties. That too caught my eye. When Sen. Crystal Asige says in this Bill that we need an agency and the County Executive Committee at the county level to provide fiscal and non-fiscal support to start- ups, I just say ‘wow’. That is a very wonderful provision because this support is much needed. In fact, it should have come yesterday, not today. Provide support in the form of research and development like I had said because we need this information to know what"
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