Incorporate intellectual rights in manifestos

NASA Presidential Candidate Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta (Photo: Courtesy)

The election season is with us again. As such, it is a good time as any to share my political wish list with the two major coalitions. The silent treatment the sector received from the two major coalitions’ manifestos was a big surprise, given that Kenya has for several decades been claiming to have the ambition of attaining high economic growth driven by intellectual capital (knowledge economy).

The long-term development plan for Kenya, Vision 2030, is about building an industrialised middle income economy by the end of the planned period. It has been mentioned many times that this growth shall be driven by the knowledge economy.