The Intellectual Property Management Office (IPMO), University of Nairobi, held an Intellectual Property Commercialization training for members of the Colleges’ Management and Researchers on 5th and 6th March 2020. The purpose of the training was to impart knowledge on intellectual property identification, the value of intellectual property protection, important aspects of a business plan, product development and testing,  concept feasibility, branding and marketing, legal considerations, innovation incubation and how to asses a potential product for commercialization.

One of our key roles in writing this blog on health systems in Kenya is to assess and provide accurate, timely information and decision options for healthcare practitioners to be able to make the best decisions at the time in implementing what the Ministry of Health says. We analyse only credible sources of information, which in this case are the Kenya Government, World Health Organisation and scientific publications that are peer reviewed.

The office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Enterprise (DVC-RIE) as part of the initiative to develop a Policy Briefs Series organized a policy brief training that was conducted on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at the University of Nairobi Towers, 4th Floor, RM 402. The online registration portal was oversubscribed within 48 hours and 37 participants attended the training session, all of them from the University of Nairobi Academic staff.