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    "id": 705362,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "die in their first three years of establishment and that is not something that we should celebrate. This happens usually not because of lack of capital but poor investment, diversion of resources and other external factors that would be curtailed if there was proper mentorship and entrepreneurship. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other challenge that we have is the issue of poor marketing strategies. While this country has been praised for the success in co-operative movement, but that is largely around traditional agricultural production lines. We need to look at forward and backward chain supply management so that young people are empowered to do proper marketing of their products. You find that most of these resources are wasted; there is a lot of middlemanship and eventually they are taken away. In fact, innovation is about contracting where because of lack of resources or inadequate resources thereof, young people are swindled of their inventions and innovations because they do not know how to negotiate and market their ideas. Sometimes they just want to stay with their ideas thinking that those ideas originate from them, but that is not helping them. So, the issue of marketing strategies is very important. The other challenge that we have is a hectic patenting problem – There are so many papers to be filled and so many agencies to be dealt with. We have the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI); the Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI) and NACOSTI. Some of them are duplicitous because they do the same job, time and over again. You do not know who you are supposed to go to. So, people get frustrated in the process and, of course, without belabouring the point, the usual element of corruption is present. This is because Government services in this country have been monetized and commercialised. An officer who is supposed to give you his or her service on a daily basis, is supposed to be given some bribe to do the very same thing that he is earning a salary for. Those are the things that we need to address. We do not have a coherent legislation regime. If at all that exists then it is archaic. They do not speak to the realities of the current market regime. They do not speak to the new technologies. They do not speak to the shift of the economy going forward."
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