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Innovators reveal why their ideas failed, while some picked

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It was Robert Metcalfe, a US engineer and entrepreneur who helped pioneer the internet in the 1970s, who said: “Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.”

This means gaining impact for new ideas, not just having them. Unfortunately, for many innovators in Kenya, the inspiration that comes with that triumphant discovery does not last beyond Archimedes’ eureka moment.

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