KEY NOTE ADDRESS BY ENG. JOHN TANUI THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, KONZA TECHNOPOLIS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (KOTDA), DURING THE 3RD DeKUT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, NYERI ON 1ST NOVEMBER 2017

Abstract

Ladies and Gentlemen:  I wish to thank the leadership of Dedan Kimathi University, for hosting this important conference. I am delighted to see so much enthusiasm, at the highest level of academia, for a topic that is dear to my heart “Science Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship  I am pleased to be here, and I would like to thank my host – Prof.P.Ndirangu Kioni-- Vice Chancellor for giving me this opportunity to give a key note speech to this great audience  Universities play an important role in driving economic growth. We live in a time where knowledge as an input to economic growth, has fundamentally changed, and indeed gained more prominence.  A majority of developing countries are now moving towards a “Knowledge-based economy”; whose key component is greater reliance on intellectual capabilities, human capital, research and development.  Indeed, knowledge is replacing other resources, as the key driver to development, and Science Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship has increasingly become the basis of individual prosperity and social mobility in the world today.