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Experts call for support to turn academic ideas into solutions

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Kabarak University Vice Chancellor Henry Kiplagat. [File, Standard]

Researchers and education experts have called for funding to help innovators commercialise their work.

They raised concern that despite many groundbreaking innovations coming from academic research, the transition into products and services that improve lives while solving society's needs is still wanting.

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