Kenya Vision 2030 is the nation’s new development blueprint for 2008 to 2030 which aims at making Kenya a newly industrialized middle income country providing high quality standard of life for all its citizens by the year 2030 (NESC, 2007). For Kenya to become an industrialized nation by 2030, it requires a vibrant Technical Vocational Education and Training (TIVET) system - now threatened by unjustifiable take-overs of tertiary institutions by universities. The takeovers deny the government the opportunity to increase the transition rates from schools to technical institutes.

Vision 2030 relies on science, technology and innovation (STI) in the promotion of people’s socio-economic development, democracy and governance. A new incentive structure is to be developed to support the use of STI in specialized research centers.