Promoting Manufacturing Based Enterprises
Updated on: Nov 06, 2020
One of the ways of ensuring a society that is economic empowered is shifting from being net importers to manufacturers.
As such different people and entities must play their rightful roles to ensure the same happens in their end.
Teachers play a significant role in shaping the lives of students. They are the main determinants of how a society will look like in years to come. However, the same is cultivated at early stages of a students life. Teachers promote internal entrepreneurship within the school systems by identifying and nurturing innovative ideas amongst pupils and students.
A teacher must shape and encourage the line their student seems to focus on. It is not possible for all learners to score high grades in the formal education as they are differently gifted. Therefore, teachers should encourage learners to attain high grades but not force them to study with a mentality that life is better only if one graduates from a university.
A teacher has a role to show students that in deed enrolling in technical courses offered in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVETS) is not failing in life.
Most of the innovators who have shone in the recent past have come up with manufacturing ideas and not based on the popular white-collar jobs. For instance, the famous Laikipia car (BJ50) has been developed by Samuel Njogu a person who is not using his degree knowledge.
The four-wheel tuk-tuk has now hit the market at Ksh. 450,000. The Count Government of Laikipia has chipped in to help this innovator through facilitation of having a spacious working area for mass production, certification of quality standards, mobilization of partners to offer technical guidance, and also being among the first customers.
Mr. Njogu is a living example that excelling academically is not the only way to be success in life. Teachers ought to train the current generation to use their special skills and become successful in their areas.
Trainers should also encourage creativity in school through establishing school-based enterprises. A further step for the teachers would involve linking innovative ideas to government programs for support.
Through the directorate of Laikipia Innovation Development Program (LIDP), the county government majors on hand holding such innovators to make good use of their ideas, regardless of their education background. Focus is on manufacturing, engineering, health, agriculture, mining, creative economy, energy and waste management.
So far, the directorate has 457 innovators across the county with 29 partners. Courtesy of LIDP, there are 35 products certified by Kenya Bureau of Standards and 16 ongoing, 12 products filed for utility models and Patents while eight are ongoing.
Also, the directorate has seen 66 products facilitated to local and international markets and 38 MSMEs linked to funding At least 878 jobs have been created through the innovation program. Fourteen innovators have gotten their working spaces thanks to the innovation programme. Most of these were working in their backyards and thus had limited exposure and market.
Eight enterprises have also been linked to incubation opportunities. LIDP compliments the Countys Public Sector modernization program, where departments and staff work-plans are being tailored to assisting the businesses to grow in line with the County Results Framework.
The overall objective is to create 30,000 jobs and grow the per capita daily to kshs. 600 by June 2022. Teachers who discover such students in their class are encouraged to link them to officers in the county government.
You can reach the innovation programme through a phone number or social media site as indicated below;
Phone number: 0784183702 Twitter: @LaikipiaLidp Facebook: Laikipia Innovation Development Program (LIDP)
As such different people and entities must play their rightful roles to ensure the same happens in their end.
Teachers play a significant role in shaping the lives of students. They are the main determinants of how a society will look like in years to come. However, the same is cultivated at early stages of a students life. Teachers promote internal entrepreneurship within the school systems by identifying and nurturing innovative ideas amongst pupils and students.
A teacher must shape and encourage the line their student seems to focus on. It is not possible for all learners to score high grades in the formal education as they are differently gifted. Therefore, teachers should encourage learners to attain high grades but not force them to study with a mentality that life is better only if one graduates from a university.
A teacher has a role to show students that in deed enrolling in technical courses offered in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVETS) is not failing in life.
Most of the innovators who have shone in the recent past have come up with manufacturing ideas and not based on the popular white-collar jobs. For instance, the famous Laikipia car (BJ50) has been developed by Samuel Njogu a person who is not using his degree knowledge.
The four-wheel tuk-tuk has now hit the market at Ksh. 450,000. The Count Government of Laikipia has chipped in to help this innovator through facilitation of having a spacious working area for mass production, certification of quality standards, mobilization of partners to offer technical guidance, and also being among the first customers.
Mr. Njogu is a living example that excelling academically is not the only way to be success in life. Teachers ought to train the current generation to use their special skills and become successful in their areas.
Trainers should also encourage creativity in school through establishing school-based enterprises. A further step for the teachers would involve linking innovative ideas to government programs for support.
Through the directorate of Laikipia Innovation Development Program (LIDP), the county government majors on hand holding such innovators to make good use of their ideas, regardless of their education background. Focus is on manufacturing, engineering, health, agriculture, mining, creative economy, energy and waste management.
So far, the directorate has 457 innovators across the county with 29 partners. Courtesy of LIDP, there are 35 products certified by Kenya Bureau of Standards and 16 ongoing, 12 products filed for utility models and Patents while eight are ongoing.
Also, the directorate has seen 66 products facilitated to local and international markets and 38 MSMEs linked to funding At least 878 jobs have been created through the innovation program. Fourteen innovators have gotten their working spaces thanks to the innovation programme. Most of these were working in their backyards and thus had limited exposure and market.
Eight enterprises have also been linked to incubation opportunities. LIDP compliments the Countys Public Sector modernization program, where departments and staff work-plans are being tailored to assisting the businesses to grow in line with the County Results Framework.
The overall objective is to create 30,000 jobs and grow the per capita daily to kshs. 600 by June 2022. Teachers who discover such students in their class are encouraged to link them to officers in the county government.
You can reach the innovation programme through a phone number or social media site as indicated below;
Phone number: 0784183702 Twitter: @LaikipiaLidp Facebook: Laikipia Innovation Development Program (LIDP)
