Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA)

About KeNIA

KeNIA is a semi-autonomous Government Agency established by the Science Technology & Innovation Act of 2013. It is housed at the State Department of Youth Affairs within the Ministry of Youth, Sports and the Arts.

How the RISA Fund grant will be used

KeNIA is working with ViKtoria Ventures to deliver the Research to Commercialisation (R2C) project. The R2C-2 project was co-created between RISA and KeNIA, and KeNIA chose ViKtoria Ventures to implement it in close collaboration.

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Reports

Ghana

Africa Research and Innovation Commercialisation Summit (ARICS 2024) Report

Ecosystem players in the research, technology and innovation sector across Africa converged in Accra for a one-day Africa Research and Innovation Commercialisation Summit (ARICS 2024), a thought-leadership initiative of the research and innovation hub, Heritors Labs, its funding partners--RISA Fund, development agencies and strategic collaborators in academia, industry and public sectors.

News Article

Kenya

Empowering Innovators: Launch of Phase 2 for the Research to Commercialization Accelerator

The Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) is pleased to announce the launch of phase 2 for the Research to Commercialization (R2C) Accelerator Programme, with support from the RISA Fund.

Reports

Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

‘Pre-acceleration’ in Africa: What Works

This research was produced in collaboration between Katapult Africa, with support from the RISA Fund, and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.