[Athi River Campus: September 10, 2025] The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Laban P. Ayiro attended the Commercialization and Entrepreneurial Institutions Leaders (CEIL) Summit 2025, held in Mombasa from September 11-12, 2025. 

The Summit, which was organised by the Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA),brought together leaders from academia, industry, government, and development sectors to deliberate on strategies for enhancing commercialization of research outputs and catalyzing innovation-driven institutional transformation.

The theme for this year’s summit was: "Catalyzing Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems," and aimed at intensifying discussions around institutional commercialization strategies, strengthening industry-academia linkages,  highlighting successful commercialization models from across Africa and the globe, and engaging ecosystem actors in shaping Africa’s innovation and entrepreneurship future.

During the two-day Summit, Prof. Laban Ayiro spoke on “The Future of The Kenya Network of Entrepreneurial Institutions Leaders (NEIL).”

The Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA), is a State Corporation mandated to develop and manage Kenya’s national innovation ecosystem, while, the Kenya Network of Entrepreneurial Institutions Leaders (NEIL) is a platform for institutional leaders to discuss, co-design and drive solutions to challenges of entrepreneurial and innovation prospects of Institutions.

In pursuit of these, KeNIA and the NEIL Council host an annual Commercialization and Entrepreneurial Institutions Leaders (CEIL) Summit.