Kenya has a fairly equitable distribution of innovation centers across the country. Thanks to investments by public, private and NGOs. However, support is required to increase the capacity of many of these innovation centers to support the commercialisation of globally competitive innovation-based ventures. This is an initiative to identify an innovation centre in each county and upgrade this to an innovation centre of excellence (CoE). The county innovation CoEs will serve as anchors of innovation at the county level. They will consolidate and disseminate global best practices in catalysing a national innovation ecosystem, contextualise this at the county level and support other innovation centres to adopt the best practices. This upgrade will includes investments in the redesign of the physical spaces, equipment, technology infrastructure and talent to increase the offering at these centres. This initiative will be implemented in collaboration with the county governments.